What Is the Male Marriage Premium?
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What Is the Male Marriage Premium?
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#2Enjoyed the analysis.
I wonder if our educational system will ever reach the point where the layperson doesn't immediately think "I should get married to increase my income".
Tho many people seem to believe that moving to the Bay Area will increase their earnings... post hoc ergo propter hoc.
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#3They routinely give the men with children/wives the better hours, pay, and whatever else at my work. They just changed several peoples' schedules so that my peer could have Saturdays off with his kid. Contrast that with myself: I have requested the same shift and been denied. I don't have kids. I also have better reasons to be on that shift. In my anecdotal experience, it appears classist. I would file that under 'human capital'.
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#5I think it's mostly of the first. Having an income makes dating easier, having a higher one makes it even more so.
One way to test that might be to follow a group of unmarried men who are all the same age, and then 10 years later and compare the still unmarried with the long-time married (5+ years).
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#6Would have been interesting to see a breakdown by dual-income vs single-income, unmarried with/without dependants, etc.
If you get married, and find yourself supporting a spouse, and potentially, children, you have new motivation to make more money.
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#7 1. Women seek men with high income,
2. Having a housewife leaves the man with more free time to work.
See, no need to make a study.
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#8This is pure causation. Men with more income and stability in their lives are more capable of attracting women, therefore more likely to be married. How could they miss such an obvious answer?
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#9Enjoyed the analysis. I wonder if our educational system will ever reach the point where the layperson doesn't immediately think "I should get married to increase my income". Tho many people seem to believe that moving to the Bay Area will increase their earnings... post hoc ergo propter hoc.
If the third hypothesis (signaling) is correct, then you _should_ get married to increase your income.
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#10This is pure causation. Men with more income and stability in their lives are more capable of attracting women, therefore more likely to be married. How could they miss such an obvious answer?
I mean, that was the first hypothesis of three that they offered.