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Is education level important in marriage?
College-educated adults are more likely to be married than less-educated adults. In addition, men with a higher level of education are more likely to get married in the first place when compared with less-educated men. There also are distinctive patterns in marriage longevity by race and ethnicity.
Does education affect relationship?
The study demonstrated that the educational level influences the dyadic adjustment. In groups of elementary and high-school graduates, regardless of the marital status, age and education are factors that shape the relationship.
What kind of men are happily married to high-educated women?
Personally speaking, the men that I know who are happily married to career women or highly-educated women are men who are rising through the levels of life and reaching for their true potential as a man. The men aren’t all earning more than their woman.
Should you marry a college-educated woman?
According to Mr. Noer (and many social scientists), by marrying a college-educated career woman you run a higher risk of having a shaky marriage. It seems that recent studies have found that professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat on their husbands and less likely to want to have children.
Do women marry up in income if both spouses have low education?
Yue Qian: Couples in which both spouses had very low levels of education appeared to be an exception to this pattern: The tendency for women to marry up in income did not differ significantly between couples in which both spouses had less than a high school education and couples in which the wife had less education than the husband.
Who is more likely to be the more educated spouse?
In other words, if two spouses differed in their level of education, in 1980 the husband was more likely to have more education, but in 2008–2012, the wife was more likely to be the more educated spouse.