Why do married men earn more: productivity or marriage selection?

By Hyunbae Chun, Injae Lee. 2001

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Is There a Male Marital Wage Premium? New Evidence from the United States (2018, result): “However, these assumptions were probably not met, because results often turned out very similar to those obtained by OLS (Antonovics and Town 2004; Chun and Lee 2001; Ginther and Zavodny 2001), and longitudinal studies have shown that OLS estimates are heavily biased.”
Does Marriage Make People Happy, or Do Happy People Get Married? (2006, background): “1 Both authors are also associated with CREMA, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts.”
How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence (2005, background): “Even after controlling for other factors, married individuals earn much more than single people (e.g. Chun and Lee (2001), Daniel (1995), Loh (1996), Reed and Harford (1989)).”
What Do Social Scientists Know About the Benefits of Marriage? A Review of Quantitative Methodologies (2004, unknown): “Subsequent research by Chun and Lee (2001) also adopted an endogenous switching framework but tried to improve on the identification of this model by using local marriage market conditions and mother’s country of origin to predict marital status.”
Happiness Research: State and Prospects (2005, unknown): “It is reflected in married people earning higher incomes than single people, ceteris paribus (e.g. Chun and Lee 2001).”