Quartz: “Next time you’re pondering the odds that you and your main squeeze will stay together forever, don’t just rely on the opinion of friends. Look at your credit scores.”
“A new working paper published by the US Federal Reserve Board finds that the higher your credit score, the higher your chances of a lasting relationship.”
“A trio of economists parsed data from the Fed’s consumer credit panel to identify the credit scores of couples in committed relationships. People tend to form committed relationships with people whose credit scores are in the same range, the study found. And couples with high credit scores tend to stay together longer.”
“The link between credit scores and relationship longevity probably has to do with creditworthiness being a proxy for ‘an individual’s general trustworthiness and commitment to non-debt obligations,’ the study notes. Those characteristics affect all sorts of things involved in sharing a household—who takes out the trash, for example, and who’s more likely to forget a birthday or anniversary.”
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