‘While I feel that demographics play a part, I do not believe they are central to the crisis they are only symptomatic of much larger and complex problems beneath the surface’ However, he maintained, it’s not the only measure. (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)Īs it pertains to the Hassidic and Yeshiva Jewish communities, the uneven gender ratio stems from what Birger calls a “demographic quirk.” In his chapter “Mormons and Jews,” Birger explains that high birthrates in this segment of the Jewish population means there are “more 18-year-olds than 19-year-olds, more 19-year-olds than 20-year-olds, and so on and so on.” This results in a marriage market where 19-year-old women outnumber 22-year-old men the average ages at which women and men in the community marry.Īccording to a 2013 piece from Jewish weekly Ami Magazine, which Birger cited in a recent Time article based on his book, there were about 3,000 unmarried ultra-Orthodox women between the ages of 25 and 40 in the New York metropolitan area.ĭerek Saker, Chief Marketing Officer for the Orthodox Jewish dating site, said an examination of dating and marriage data is certainly one way to measure the health of a particular community.
Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Belz Hassidic dynasty attend the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the grandson of the Belz Rabbi, to Hana Batya Pener on May 22, 2013.
“I’m not saying your entire life should be guided by gender ratios.” This deficit lies at the heart of the Orthodox Jewish community’s “Shidduch Crisis,” according to “Date-Onomics.” It also helps explain the college and post-college hookup culture as well as the decline in marriage rates, Birger said.īut make no mistake, “Date-Onomics” isn’t a dating book per se, rather “it’s a by the numbers, wonkish take on dating,” Birger said.
“Call it the man deficit,” said Birger, adding that it isn’t just a big city problem: There are four women for every three men across the US.Ī financial and tech journalist whose work has appeared in Money, Time, and Barron’s, Birger relies on a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and sociology to make his case that the shortage of college-educated men has led to a dating crisis. In fact, there’s a man drought, according to Jon Birger’s new book “ Date-Onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game.”
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