He provocatively notes that a market inefficiency resulting from known causes is unsustainable, so future behavior trends will right the dating imbalance. Jon Birger is author of 'Date-Onomics' (Workman Publishing, 2015) as well as forthcoming 'MAKE YOUR Jon Birger Authors Page, New York, New York. The author advises women seeking lasting relationships to consider relocating to male-heavy areas or dating across educational lines and suggests a long-term approach to balancing college enrollment by encouraging boys to delay starting school, to allow for developmental differences. Using a combination of demographics, game theory, and number crunching, financial and tech journalist Jon Birger explains America’s curiously lopsided dating and marriage marketand what every single, college-educated, heterosexual woman. He notes racial and cultural influences, including a dating advantage held by Asian women, and the state of marriage in Mormon and Orthodox Jewish communities, which both fit the gender imbalance but add unique complications. It’s not that he’s just not that into youit’s that there’s not enough of him. Birger argues that this disproportion enables campus hookup culture and discourages marriageable men from committing.

Nationwide, 33 percent more women than men in their twenties are college educated, with women having attended college at increasingly higher rates for a generation. college campuses and cities, the pool of single, educated, straight women is simply larger than that of their peer men. TIAA Director, editorial content Former FORTUNE Senior Writer Author of DATE-ONOMICS (Workman Publishing, 2015) and MAKE YOUR MOVE (BenBella. Why is it so hard to find a good man? Business journalist Birger sets aside popular dating advice and goes right to the numbers: supply and demand. Using a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and number-crunching, Date-onomics tells what every single, college-educated.

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