Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Millimet, Daniel L.; Sarkar, Dipanwita - Department of Economics, Emory University - 2008
The phenomenon that married men earn higher average wages than unmarried men, the so-called marriage premium, is well known. However, the robustness of the marriage premium across the wage distribution and the underlying causes of the marriage premium deserve closer scrutiny. Focusing on the...