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Travis's avatar

From the stats I've seen, women with degrees tend to marry men (or women) without degrees more than men with degrees do.

Check out the disparity between men with degrees doing the assortative mating versus women with degrees--particularly in the key 20's/30's marrying years. You'll notice trends that started showing up from the 1970's until now (college+ men do it wayyyy more than women):

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-gender-gap-in-marriages-between-college-educated-partners

There's also this data (in the PDF) from the National Bureau of Economic Research. See the graphs at the end:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w19829

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Kate Fall's avatar

Ooh, that first link is very interesting! I'll have to look at the graphs in the second link. Thanks for sharing.

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