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Married with children: what remains when observable biases are removed from the reported male marriage wage premium
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posted on 2015-04-01, 00:00 authored by M de Linde Leonard, Tom StanleyTom StanleyThere is a substantial research literature that discusses and documents a wage premium for married men. Our meta-analysis of 59 studies and 661 estimates finds a marriage premium for US men of between 9% and 13% after misspecification and selection biases are filtered out. Results from this meta-regression analysis cast doubt upon both the 'selection' and the 'specialization' explanation for the marriage-wage premium but are consistent with the notion that marriage may cause men to become more stable and committed workers.
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Labour economicsVolume
33Pagination
72 - 80Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0927-5371Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2015, Elsevier B.V.Usage metrics
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