Meanings
comparative more hypogamous · superlative most hypogamous
- Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypogamy.
In the past, quite some studies have shown that educational hypogamous marriages are more likely to dissolve than marriages with other educational pairings (see Schwartz and Han 2014 for a review).
2017 November 21, Lindsay Theunis, Christine Schnor, Didier Willaert, Jan Van Bavel, “His and Her Education and Marital Dissolution: Adding a Contextual Dimension”, in European Journal of Population, volume 34, →DOI, pages 663-687
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