Benjamin Goldman

This paper has been invited for revision at “Nature Communications” under the title “Scarcity of college men and the decline in marriage among non-college Americans.” We thank Raj Chetty, John Eric Humphries, John Friedman, Claudia Goldin, Matthew Hall, Elisa Jácome, Melissa Kearney, Kelly Musick, Richard Reeves, Hannes Schwandt, Matthew Staiger, Peter Rich, Jonathan Tebes, Alanna Williams, and Riley Wilson for helpful comments and discussions.

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