Marrying Down : The Gender Gap in Post - Secondary Completion
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چکیده
3 Introduction 4 Literature Review 5 The Gender Gap in Post-Secondary Education 5 Women and Education 7 Homogamy and Education 9 Data 14 Methods 26 Results 28 Discussion 32 Conclusion 35 Appendix 1: Supplementary Descriptive Statistics 38 Appendix 2: Supplementary Geographic Descriptive Statistics 40 Works Cited 45
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