How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly … encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the … linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we …

wage differential. -- wages ; marriage ; race ; training ; fixed effects …

It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage … earn more than non-cohabiting heterosexual men. -- Male marriage premium ; gay ; heterosexual …

-married men. One proposed explanation for this male marriage premium is that men may be selected into marriage on the basis of … hypothesis using a "natural experiment" that may be an exogenous cause of marriage for some men. We compare the estimated … marriage premium between men whose first marriages are followed by a birth within seven months and other married men. Married …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

impact of marriage. I find clear evidence that the elasticity of labor supply with respect to wages and taxes is affected by … marriage decisions. The empirical results show that males who are continuously married to the same wife have a lower average …