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Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The Effect of Demographics on Educational Hypergamy

In the modern day, women are more likely to educationally marry down in quotes. The graph below only goes up to bachelor's, but a site linked here shows that men with a PhD are as likely to marry a PhD woman as vice versa. Women are marrying down in education more often than you would expect by chance. This American study is confusingly phrased and might either be saying it's stronger or just getting stronger over time. But the French study is very clear. You can check out the details of this graph in the post.

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