Dating and marriage markets have transformed as more women have gone to college and the share of college graduates has skewed more female. Some observers have concluded that this imbalance has left highly educated women unable to find men to marry. Not so. In a new paper cleverly titled 'Bachelors without Bachelor's,' the economists Clara Chambers, Benjamin Goldman, and Joseph Winkelmann find that 'the share of marriages where the wife has a four-year degree but the husband does not has quadrupled.' Contrary to popular narratives, marriage rates for educated women have remained remarkably stable. So who isn't getting married' Well, a growing share of non-college-educated women. On today's episode of Good on Paper, Goldman, an assistant professor of economics and public policy at Cornell University, joins me to discuss what his findings reveal about the state of American marriage. One clue as to why marriage rates for non-college-educated women declined so steeply over the 20th...
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