Last year, Tyler named "hypergamy" his word of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [EconLog: Family Economics Archives] Reference

As a new study by a University of Washington economics professor points out, female "hypergamy" (the tendency to marry upward with respect to social status, education, and income) is the norm in many societies, and widespread hypergamy inevitably disadvantages well-educated women, who have nowhere to marry up to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primary Sources] Reference

Experts say that "hypergamy" (male from Dwija castes) has religious sanction while "hypogamy" (woman from upper caste) would mean the real breaking away from stratification.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Here's how this pattern looks through the lens of hypergamy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lens of Hypergamy: An Application, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The practice of hypergamy is, or was until recently, common among.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

The social results of hypergamy, when commonly practised, are highly injurious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Kanaujia Brahmans of the Central Provinces practise hypergamy, as described in the general article on Brahman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Although John Quincy was now too grand to stoop to hypergamy, he did manage to bring into the family a new type.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adams' Fall: II] Reference

Khandaits practise hypergamy with the Rautadi, taking daughters from them, but not giving their daughters to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Why must a woman RELINQUISH her marriage to begin a new, largely exclusive relationship with a better man hypergamy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lens of Hypergamy: An Application, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

They have the same complicated arrangement of exogamy and hypergamy as the Khatris, and will take food from that caste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Gaurs practised hypergamy with the Sanadhyas, taking daughters from them in marriage but not giving their daughters to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

My point is simply that the betrayal takes very different forms - and the lens of hypergamy helps social scientists understand why.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lens of Hypergamy: An Application, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Matches are, however, not generally arranged according to the above system of hypergamy, but each group marries among its own members.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

I'm not doubting your analysis "through the lens of hypergamy", but the most likely source of female induced divorces is financially based.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lens of Hypergamy: An Application, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

So hypergamy explains even more than it seems: Why wives initiate divorce, and why mistresses pressure other women's husbands to do the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lens of Hypergamy: An Application, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The Dangis have no subcastes distinguished by separate names, but they are divided into three classes, among whom the principle of hypergamy prevails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Sorry, looked at from the student's standpoint, that should have been phrased in the opposite way: anything as gross as deliberate academic hypergamy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferule & Fescue] Reference

If caste was based on distinctions of race, then apparently the practice of hypergamy would be objectionable, because it would destroy the different racial classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Social science has English terms to categorize systems of families and relationships -- includingmonogamy, polygamy, polygyny, hypergamy, matrilineal, patrilineal, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip N. Cohen: Take My Words For It: Homogamy and Heterogamy] Reference

The custom of hypergamy prevails somewhat largely in northern India between different subcastes, groups of different social status in the same subcaste, and occasionally even between different castes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

They also practise hypergamy, as members of the Mainpuri Chauhan, Hiyas, Bisen, Surkhi and Bais septs or subsepts will take girls in marriage from families of other septs, but will not give their daughters to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Certain subcastes of Sunars also have hypergamy and, as between different castes, it exists between the Dangis and Rajputs, pure Rajputs being held willing to take daughters in marriage from the highest clans of Dangis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Among the Dangis a bridegroom-price is usually paid, which varies according to the social respectability of the boy's sept, as much as Rs. 2000 having been given for a bridegroom of higher class according to the rule of hypergamy already described.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Though hypergamy may be declining among the professional classes, less-educated women still tend to reach up the social ladder when they marry, leaving a host of unmarriageable males stuck below. — "Education and hypergamy in Marriage Markets," Elaina Rose, University of Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primary Sources] Reference

Looks like female hypergamy is conclusively proved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizen Renegade] Reference

They practise hypergamy by taking wives from the Pitariye and Sudihe subdivisions, and giving daughters to the Sri Nagariye and Banjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

The Benetia Sansias practise hypergamy with the Khandait Sansias, taking their daughters in marriage, but not giving daughters to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

They practise hypergamy, taking wives from the Sadihe subcaste, and giving daughters to the Srinagariye, Bangar, Mahuwe and Jadiye subcastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

Up till recently they practised hypergamy with the other groups, taking daughters from them in marriage, but not giving their daughters to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

A trace of them seems to survive in the practice of hypergamy, still widely prevalent in northern India, by which men of the higher subcastes of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

Another point, possibly connected with hypergamy, is that a peculiar relation exists between a man and the family into which his daughter has married.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

The above clans sometimes practise hypergamy among themselves and also with the other Lodhis, taking daughters from the latter on receipt of a large bridegroom-price for the honour conferred by the marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

Possibly the Barki Rautias formerly practised hypergamy with the Majhli, taking daughters in marriage but not giving daughters, and in course of time this has led to the obliteration of the distinction between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

Doesn’t hypergamy imply that the U.S. is about to become a whole lot more like Russia, or inner city ghettos?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Marriages Becoming More Financially Egalitarian] Reference

(Non-hottie hypergamy usually resolves itself in buckets of ice cream or soul-crushing strings of one night stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roissy in DC] Reference