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 …

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 …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions …