A new NBER study finds that as college men grow scarce, college-educated women marry high-earning men without degrees—leaving ...

College-educated women face shrinking pool of suitable men to marry, study finds - Women who don’t have college degrees are ...

Once upon a time, it was fairly common for highly educated men in the United States to marry less-educated women. But beginning in the mid-20th century, as more women started to attend college, ...

A new novel, The Ladies Hall, explores a 19th-century revolution in how women were educated. Here, its author explains how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Nietzel, former college president, writes on higher education Nationwide, women comprised 58% of all college students in ...

Black women have long been celebrated for their educational achievements, but does the narrative still hold true that they are the “most educated” in 2025? Recent data suggests that Black women are ...

College-educated women face an increasingly daunting marriage market, according to an emerging narrative in academia and the media. Women so outnumber men on four-year campuses—by 1.6 million—that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Royce White, the GOP Senate candidate in Minnesota who once wrote that the "bad guys won" World War II, had another bizarre take ...

Something shifted quietly in the marriage data over the last decade, and it doesn’t fit the story most of us were told about how relationships are supposed to work. The old script said women married ...

It's a bit weird to think of dating or marriage as a market — but this is a newsletter that tries to make sense of the world through economics. And, like any market, shifts in supply and demand can ...