The message of the “success sequence,” as recently explored by W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang in their report on Millennials’ family lives and economic status, is that your chances of economic stability are much higher if you finish high school, get a job, and marry before you start having kids. Of course, the data can only show that the people who do avoid or exit poverty are more likely to have these characteristics. Wilcox and Wang control for several obvious factors like race and...
