Educational expansion created more marriages by same educational level, race

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - 10:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Compulsory schooling laws instituted in the late 1800s and early 1900s caused more people in Northern states to marry people at their same education level and race, possibly contributing to economic inequality, according to a new study.

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