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 …

a hypothesis of "on-the-marriage" search. The results are most supportive of the search interpretation. No strong …

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

a hypothesis of "on-the-marriage" search. The results are most supportive of the search interpretation. No strong …

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 …

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …

To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment … changes in the value of marriage due to a housing price shock have an asymmetric impact on individual welfare both across …

-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 …