Married with children: What remains when observable biases are removed from the reported male marriage wage premium

Megan de Linde Leonard and T. Stanley

Labour Economics, 2015, vol. 33, issue C, 72-80

Abstract: There is a substantial research literature that discusses and documents a wage premium for married men. Our meta-analysis of 59 studies and 661 estimates finds a marriage premium for US men of between 9% and 13% after misspecification and selection biases are filtered out. Results from this meta-regression analysis cast doubt upon both the ‘selection’ and the ‘specialization’ explanation for the marriage-wage premium but are consistent with the notion that marriage may cause men to become more stable and committed workers.

Keywords: Marriage premium; Wages; Productivity; Meta-regression analysis; Omitted-variable bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.02.010

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