Although a man’s educational level has no impact on his own happiness, a woman married to a man with at least a college degree is about 5pc more likely to be very happy with her marriage, according to an analysis of the General Social Survey, funded by the US National Science Foundation. “There seems to be an inherent quality of a man having a college degree that makes a woman happier in marriage,” write economists Bruce T. Elmslie of the University of New Hampshire and Edinaldo Tebaldi of Bryant University. Men, by contrast, seem to have little interest in the educational level of their wives.

(Source: Applied Economics)

Published in Dawn, Economic & Business, September 29th, 2014