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  3. Male Marriage Wage Premium: A Perspective of Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination

Male Marriage Wage Premium: A Perspective of Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination

Spring 2014
03/20/2014
Location: 
SSRI-Gross Hall 230C
Speaker: 
Xiaomin Fu (DuPRI Pre-doctoral Fellow)
Abstract: 
ABSTRACT: Large wage differences exist between married and single men. This paper argues that this marriage wage premium can arise from statistical discrimination on the basis of marital status in a labor market with incomplete information and employer learning. Using NLSY79, this hypothesis is tested separately for high school graduates and college graduates. The results suggest that high school graduates face a labor market with information friction and experience statistical discrimination on marital status, while college graduates are on the contrary. This paper also provides a framework to quantify the treatment effect of marriage in an incomplete information setting.
Contact: 
Debra Fincham
Contact email: 
debra.fincham@duke.edu
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