Edward Glaeser, Columnist

Princeton's Marriage Market Theory Worked for Me

"I am comfortable, based on both personal experience and the infallible majesty of economic theory, urging young male Princetonians to view your female classmates as prospective long-term friends and spouses."

April 3, 2013 at 4:38 PM UTC

By Edward Glaeser

Edward L. Glaeser is a Bloomberg View columnist appearing on alternate Tuesdays. A professor of economics at Harvard, he is the author of "Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier." Glaeser directs Harvard's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. His areas of research include the economics of cities, housing, segregation, obesity, crime and innovation. Glaeser received his B.A. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He lives in Weston, Mass.

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Most of my research deals with the economics of cities, but I have a smattering of knowledge in the minor field of spouse-meeting at Princeton.

There is usually little demand for such arcana -- the American Economic Association has never held a symposium on the topic -- but the blogospheric explosion after an alumna's letter to the Daily Princetonian advising female students to "find a husband on campus before you graduate" led my editor to urge me to weigh in.