![]() He provocatively notes that a market inefficiency resulting from known causes is unsustainable, so future behavior trends will right the dating imbalance. 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. Bio for Jon Birger, Keynote Speaker, Award Winning Contributor to Fortune Magazine, Author of Date-Onomics, Frequent Guest on CNN, BBC, CNBC, and NPR. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() 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, 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 needs to know. ![]()
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