Doug Dawson
Taking the shine off: albedo and global temperatures adds Dawson in a second marriage-data segment. The local source text spells the name “Doug Dowson”, but this page keeps the existing wiki spelling for continuity. In the episode, he uses Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as a celebrity hook for Female Breadwinner Norms, then contrasts egalitarian survey attitudes with Reported Income Gender Norms and Domestic Labor Double Burden in American couples.
Doug Dawson appears in Hard cedar: Lebanon seeks Trump’s help as the analyst explaining census-based evidence on age gaps in U.S. heterosexual marriages. The episode says he expected some popular patterns, including “trophy husbands,” to show up more strongly than they did.
His key contribution is Age-Gap Marriage Decline. Dawson says that in 1980 top-earning men were more likely than typical earners to marry women at least a decade younger, but by 2024 the gap had closed. He offers higher education and age-peer socialization as one possible explanation.
Under strAIn: breaking the British state adds Dawson in a lighter but related data segment on Short-King Dating Data. The source again spells the name “Doug Dowson”; the page keeps the existing spelling. Dawson tests whether the online “short king” trend changed dating and marriage outcomes for shorter men, and concludes that height still matters in heterosexual dating patterns.
Connections
- Age-Gap Marriage Decline - main concept tied to his segment.
- Female Breadwinner Norms, Reported Income Gender Norms, and Domestic Labor Double Burden - marriage-data concepts from the later source.
- Short-King Dating Data - height, dating-app, and marriage-pattern segment from the later The Intelligence source.
- United States - census-data setting.