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That\u0092s one takeaway from a study<\/a> on trends in marriage, divorce and fertility released today by economists Betsey Stevenson<\/strong> and Adam Isen<\/strong> of the University of Pennsylvania<\/strong>’s Wharton School<\/strong>.<\/p>\nAs part of their research, the two examined divorce trends among different educational groups by race and gender. Across the board, college-educated people had lower divorce rates than people with less education. Ms. Stevenson suggests that might be because college educated couples go into marriage with a different set of expectations.<\/p>\n
\u0093They\u0092re less likely to approach their marriages as sources of financial stability and they\u0092re more likely to approach them as a source of personal fulfillment,\u0094 she says.<\/p>\n
But while people with just a high school education or less had higher divorce rates than people with college diplomas, the group with the highest divorce rates are people who only have \u0093some college\u0094 — those who have attended two-year program or have failed to complete a four-year degree.<\/p>\n
The reason? The economists suggest that many people with only some college lacked the stamina or the resources to finish their educations — problems may have come up in their personal lives, for example, or they may have run out of money. The same things that cut an education short can also stop a marriage in its tracks.<\/p>\n
When it comes to marriage, a little college education is dangerous thing. That\u0092s one takeaway from a study on trends in marriage, divorce and fertility released today by economists Betsey Stevenson and Adam Isen of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. As part of their research, the two examined divorce trends among different educational groups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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