Study confirms there is no "marital wage premium" for men in the USA. Instead, causality flows the other way: women only choose to marry higher earning men.

EricAllonde · 2018-07-11T00:11:30+00:00

This study reconsiders the phenomenon that married men earn more money than unmarried men, a key result of the research on marriage benefits. Many earlier studies have found such a “male marital wage premium.” Recent studies using panel data for the United States conclude that part of this premium is due to selection of high earners into marriage. Nevertheless, a substantial effect of marriage seems to remain. The current study investigates whether the remaining premium is really a causal effect. Using conventional fixed-effects models, previous studies statistically controlled for selection based on wage levels only. We suggest a more general fixed-effects model that allows for higher wage growth of to-be-married men. The empirical test draws on panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979 to 2012). We replicate the main finding of the literature: a wage premium remains after controlling for selection on individual wage levels. However, the remaining effect is not causal. The results show that married men earn more because selection into marriage operates not only on wage levels but also on wage growth. Hence, men on a steep career track are especially likely to marry. We conclude that arguments postulating a wage premium for married men should be discarded.

More proof of the axiom that, "Whatever feminists say, the exact opposite is true".

iainmf · 2018-07-11T01:58:12+00:00

Related: The Male-Female Pay Gap Driven by Coupling between Labor Markets and Mating Markets

If some extrinsic force, such as discrimination [or biological imperatives], creates an initial bias in wages, then coupled feedback between mating preferences and wages creates and maintains excess mating preference and wage biases.

fengpi · 2018-07-11T00:14:23+00:00

WHY IS THIS A REVELATION TO ANYBODY????

Do people think attractive women just happen to poof into existence in the passenger seat of a wealthy dude's Ferrari by happenstance as well? You know, the chick was walking along on the sidewalk, her high heels clicking, and she takes a wrong turn- "Whoops! How did I end up in this Ferrari?? Why am I sucking a dick now?"

25511367325325869452 · 2018-07-11T09:38:19+00:00

So basically most women are gold diggers, the study. Of course they'll frame it as "wanting financial stability for duh baby". I wonder how childless women pretend they're not gold diggers though

TracyMorganFreeman · 2018-07-11T05:50:20+00:00

Converse error strikes again.

BramblEdge · 2018-07-11T12:07:17+00:00

Has it been posted on /r/mensrightslinks yet?

Blutarg · 2018-07-11T15:50:34+00:00

Very interesting! Good find.

Title	Study confirms there is no "marital wage premium" for men in the USA. Instead, causality flows the other way: women only choose to marry higher earning men.
Author	EricAllonde
Upvotes	115
Comments	16
Date	July 11, 2018 12:10 AM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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