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Title: Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?
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1. Korenman, Sanders D.
Neumark, David B.
Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?
Journal of Human Resources 26,2 (Spring 1991): 282-307.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145924
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Discrimination; Earnings; Marital Status; Marriage; Occupational Status; Wages

This paper examines hypothesized labor market productivity differentials among men of different marital statuses. Utilizing data from the NLS of Young Men, it attempts to distinguish empirically among three competing hypotheses surrounding the large hourly wage premiums (10-40 percent, controlling for observable worker and job characteristics) paid to married men in comparison to never married men. The hypotheses are: productivity-enhancing effects of marriage, selection of "more productive" men into the married state, and discrimination. To the extent that the data allow us to distinguish among the three, they suggest that selection accounts for somewhat less than half of the differential, and discrimination accounts for none of it.
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Korenman, Sanders D. and David B. Neumark. "Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?" Journal of Human Resources 26,2 (Spring 1991): 282-307.