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College women increasingly marry non-grad men, widening economic gap

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New research indicates a significant shift in marriage patterns in the U.S., driven by widening educational and economic disparities between men and women. College-educated women are increasingly marrying men without degrees, particularly those with higher earnings, a trend that has quadrupled since the 1930 birth cohort. This pattern leaves non-college men who do not marry college-educated women with stagnant or declining earnings, concentrating the benefits of a shrinking pool of "marriageable" men at the top. AI

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Mia Osmonbekov ·

    College women are snapping up the highest-earning men without college degrees, leaving the rest further behind

    A new NBER study finds that as college men grow scarce, college-educated women marry high-earning men without degrees—leaving non-college women with a shrinking, poorer pool of potential husbands

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