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Cato Video • November 11, 2015 

# The Economics of Dating: How Game Theory and Demographics Explain Dating in D.C. (Jon Birger) 

Using a combination of basic economic principles, demographics, game theory, and number crunching, Jon Birger explains America’s curiously lopsided dating and marriage market among single, college-educated, looking-for-a-partner women.

Birger investigates not only the consequences of this unequal ratio of college-educated men to women on dating but also a host of other social issues.

View the full event here: [https://​www​.cato​.org/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​e​c​o​n​o​m​i​c​s​-​d​a​t​i​n​g​-​h​o​w​-​g​a​m​e​-​t​h​e​o​r​y​-​d​e​m​o​g​r​a​p​h​i​c​s​-​e​x​p​l​a​i​n​-​d​a​t​i​ng-dc](https://www.cato.org/events/economics-dating-how-game-theory-demographics-explain-dating-dc)

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