Is There Anything They Can't Do?

By Timmy Watson in News on Oct 28, 2006 5:13PM

Well, guys, that girl doing the keg stand at the Pi Kappa Beta theta party in college could have been the one.

The University of Chicago Press' Journal of Labor Economics has an article correlating the amount of husband's income with the education of their wives. Two researchers from Brigham Young University, Lars Lefgren and Frank McIntyre, were studying women's education as it affects their future quality of life. To do this they looked at the husband's income and came to the conclusion that, "Inasmuch as marriage generates nonpecuniary benefits as well, the marriage market could be an even more important avenue through which education increases women's welfare," they said.

According to the press release, this may be due to the circles college-educated women run in and the likelihood of marrying college-educated husbands.

We tend to believe the propensity of women to bring out the better qualities in men have an effect on their success, we can only hope men can one day have the same effect on women.