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it is usually women who prefer to "marry up" Regardless of preferences, what I'd expect to happen is that this would end up pretty balanced. Are a substantial
by cbr 9y ago
it is usually women who prefer to "marry up"
Regardless of preferences, what I'd expect to happen is that this would end up pretty balanced. Are a substantial fraction of high status women deciding not to get married? Much more than the fraction of high status men?
- BearGoesChirp 9y agoI've seen a number of articles about college educated women having trouble finding enough college educated men to meet the demand. Also consider the factor age can play in this, given that people tend to gain wealth throughout most of their life. If women married men who were a bit older than them, you would see a marry up effect and you would also have more widows at older age since their older husband has passed.