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Marriage and earnings


Abstract: An empirical investigation of the relationship between marriage and wages, arguing that marriage signals certain unobservable individual characteristics - including ability, honesty, loyalty, dependability, and determination - which are valued by employers, and that failure to control for the correlation of the fixed effects with marriage leads to an upward bias in the marital status coefficient.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Economic Review

Publication Date: 1995

Issue: Q IV

Pages: 10-20