{"id":53897,"date":"2018-10-17T08:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53897"},"modified":"2018-10-17T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:20:16","slug":"talk-puts-marriage-trends-under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/10\/talk-puts-marriage-trends-under-the-microscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk puts marriage trends under the microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The connection between marriage and socioeconomic status is at the centre of a talk taking place on campus next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hosted by Brock\u2019s Department of Economics, the latest lecture in the Research Seminar Series features Laura Salisbury from York University and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53898\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53898\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-53898\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Salisbury.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"194\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Salisbury, York University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salisbury will present \u201cWho married, (to) whom, and where? Trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940\u201d on Monday, Oct. 22 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in MCA241.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her paper analyzes marriage in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and its relation to socioeconomic status. Salisbury looks at marriage rates across incomes, ages and geographic regions to reveal how society was becoming more segmented along the marriage dimension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/economics\/visiting-speakers\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research Seminar Series<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Brock\u2019s Department of Economics continues throughout the 2018-19 academic year. The series offers an opportunity to learn from renowned researchers from Canada and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All talks are open to the public. Dates, times and room locations for all talks are listed on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/economics\/visiting-speakers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">department\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The connection between marriage and socioeconomic status is at the centre of a talk taking place on campus next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[2525,7080,7081,7047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53899,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53897\/revisions\/53899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}