Last year, Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson mined Gallup data of a survey conducted in 136 countries on questions of love and relationships.
See the top-ranked and bottom-ranked countries here.
This year, Wolfers tweeted a chart from a new piece in The Atlantic on the countries that feel the most love in the world:
Love, quantified. http://t.co/yVKPY6zhE4 pic.twitter.com/LzC4O5l4lq
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) February 14, 2014
and he also pointed out this item that he contributed to Freakonomics last year:
This chart reveals the most amazing (non-linear) relationship ever discovered in economic data http://t.co/oCoHX4jf8q pic.twitter.com/pch5Ry11zs
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) February 14, 2014
Finally, other Brookings experts have recently weighed in on the changes in marriage and family formation in America. Here are our recommended stories:
Opposites Don’t Attract: Assortative Mating and Social Mobility
HIP (High Investment Parenting) Marriages Are the Future
How to Save Marriage in America
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It’s Valentine’s Day. What Country Has the Most Love?
February 14, 2014