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Author: Zissimopoulos, Julie M.
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Loughran, David S. Zissimopoulos, Julie M. |
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Are There Gains to Delaying Marriage? The Effect of Age at First Marriage on Career Development and Wages Working Paper No. WR-207, RAND, November 2004. Also: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2004/RAND_WR207.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: RAND Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Career Patterns; Marriage; Wages Age at first marriage has risen dramatically since the mid-1960s among a wide spectrum of the U.S. population. Researchers have considered many possible explanations for this trend. Few, though, have asked why individuals should want to delay marriage in the first place. One possibility is that early marriage inhibits the career development of one or both individuals in a marriage. We test this hypothesis using data from the NLSY79. Using panel data methods that exploit longitudinal variation in wages and marriage timing, we estimate that delaying marriage increases hourly wages of women by nearly four percent for each year they delay. Marriage timing has no impact on the wages of men. We find that delaying marriage may have costs as well. All else equal, women who delay marriage marry spouses with lower wages. |
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Loughran, David S. and Julie M. Zissimopoulos. "Are There Gains to Delaying Marriage? The Effect of Age at First Marriage on Career Development and Wages." Working Paper No. WR-207, RAND, November 2004. |
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Loughran, David S. Zissimopoulos, Julie M. |
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Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wage Growth of Men and Women Working Paper WR-482, RAND Labor and Population, RAND Corportation, Santa Monica, CA, March 2008. Also: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2008/RAND_WR482-1.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: RAND Keyword(s): Childbearing; Marriage; Wage Growth; Wages, Men; Wages, Women We use data from the earlier and later cohorts of the NLSY to estimate the effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Our estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages by between two and four percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers the wage growth of men and women by about two and four percentage points, respectively. A first birth lowers female wages by between two and three percent, but has no effect on wage growth. Male wages are unaffected by childbearing. These findings suggest that early marriage and childbearing can lead to substantial decreases in lifetime earnings. |
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Loughran, David S. and Julie M. Zissimopoulos. "Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wage Growth of Men and Women." Working Paper WR-482, RAND Labor and Population, RAND Corportation, Santa Monica, CA, March 2008. |
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Loughran, David S. Zissimopoulos, Julie M. |
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Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women Journal of Human Resources 44,2 (Spring 2009): 326-349. Also: http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/2/326.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Child Care; Children; Domestic Violence; Earnings; Family Structure; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Wage Differentials; Wage Levels We use data from the earlier and later cohorts of the NLSY to estimate the effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Our estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages 2-4 percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers the wage growth of men and women by about two and four percentage points, respectively. A first birth lowers female wages 2-3 percent, but has no effect on wage growth. Male wages are unaffected by childbearing. These findings suggest that early marriage and childbearing can lead to substantial decreases in lifetime earnings. |
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Loughran, David S. and Julie M. Zissimopoulos. "Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women." Journal of Human Resources 44,2 (Spring 2009): 326-349.
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