Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Right, okay....

Here I am - in the city. Anyone wanna be the other half of a 'power couple'??



'Power Couples' Meet in Cities, Study Finds
LiveScience Staff
LiveScience.com
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.
Instead, single 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. By 1990 the figure grew to 50 percent.
“We find that 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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