James Sexton

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5,249 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 5 May

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Prof G Markets · Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

Second and third marriages, it's much higher.

Second marriages, you're looking at 60 to 67%.

Third marriages, 73 to 74%.

Ugh.

You know, what's really interesting is couples who marry before the age of 25 have a significantly higher divorce rate, roughly 60%.

And couples where one or both partners did not complete college divorce at much higher rates than college-educated couples.

So what often happens is people do a great job of lying with statistics.

on this?

Because they'll say, well, you know, a survey of college-educated women over the age of 30, divorce rate's only 5%.

You're like, right, you just cherry-picked people who graduated college, which is not the majority of the world, or of the United States, and people who marry after the age of 25.

And so this is like, again, you're picking a statistical model that's going to work best for you.

And then on top of that, like I said, you have these statistics of a marital breakdown without a formal divorce.

And the American Psychological Association did some good work on that.

The U.S.

Census Bureau American Community Survey.

Bowling Green State University has something called the National Center for Family and Marriage Research.

And they've done a ton of research on not.

with that simplified model of saying, here's the marriage rate, here's the divorce rate, and let's match those up.

Because people are very rarely in the same year getting married and divorced.

And when you have things like the pandemic, where the court system essentially slowed or shut down for a period of time, then, of course, right after...

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