Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2011
robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of … married couples in the 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses finds that male earnings decrease with within-couple age … difference, regardless of whether the man is older or younger than his wife. In contrast, female earnings increase with within …