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I didn't mean to imply that the "prospects" were referring to the quality of the other partner, but rather to the probability of being married at all. There's a

I didn't mean to imply that the "prospects" were referring to the quality of the other partner, but rather to the probability of being married at all. There's a well-documented marriage rate gap based on educational attainment. This is a recent trend. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/08/19/the-most-educated-women-are-the-most-likely-to-be-married/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/08...

rovolo 4y ago
Note that this article is plotting "% of women 40-45 currently married". Limitations: 1) only women, 2) "currently married" instead of "ever married", 3) the 40-45 age band is when kids finish HS if you had them in your early 20s, which could juice the divorce rate. I tried to get a broader picture from data.census.gov, but I don't know how to navigate it well enough to recreate the Brookings graph. https://data.census.gov/table?t=Marital+Status+and+Marital+History&y=2019&d=ACS+1-Year+Estimates+Detailed+Tables&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B12002 https://data.census.gov/table?t=Marital+Status+and+Marital+H...