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com Tue Jun 26, 11:52 AM ET More than half of all "power couples," in which both spouses are college graduates, live in large metropolitan areas. Researchers have long assumed the couples migrate to the cities.
college graduates tend to move to cities, where they meet and marry. That's the conclusion of a study released today by the Journal of Labor Economics. In 1970, 39 percent of power couples lived in metropolitan areas with at least two million residents.
power couples are not more likely to migrate to the largest metropolitan areas and are no less likely than other couples to migrate from such areas once they are there," write the researchers. The study, based on 4,800 families, was done by Janice Compton at the University of Manitoba and Robert A Pollak of Washington University and National Bureau of Economic Research. The researches also found that couples in which only the man has a college degree are far more likely to move to a metropolitan area than couples in which only the woman has a college degree.
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