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A reexamination of marital status and the earnings of men

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dc.contributor.authorBrinkley, Mark A.en
dc.contributor.committeechairWentzler, Nancy A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPorter, William R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberReid, Brian K.en
dc.contributor.departmentEconomicsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:35:44Zen
dc.date.adate2009-05-09en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:35:44Zen
dc.date.issued1996-05-06en
dc.date.rdate2009-05-09en
dc.date.sdate2009-05-09en
dc.description.abstractWithin the field of labor economics, there has been a lot of empirical work which has shown that married men earn more than unmarried men. Theoretically, this makes some sense in that men which earn more money than other men may be more attractive partners for marriage. Also, married men may work harder and longer in order to increase their earnings to support their family. Empirical evidence has shown that marital status is a statistically significant variable when performing a simple regression on earnings using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). However, OLS can produce biased estimates if one or more of the independent variables are determined endogenously, which is the contention made by Robert A. Nakosteen and Michael A. Zimmer. They found that after adjusting for the endogenous nature of the marital status dummy variable the variable was no longer significant in explaining the variation in earnings. However, two of their shortcomings were a narrowly defined age group for the data set and less than richly specified regression equations. But, using a different data set and additional explanatory variables in order to address the problems of the Nakosteen and Zimmer research I was able to show that even when adjusting for the endogenous nature of the marital status variable its effect on earnings was still significanten
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentv, 51 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05092009-040351en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05092009-040351/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/42533en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1996.B756.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 35393287en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectearningsen
dc.subjectregression analysisen
dc.subjectmarital statusen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1996.B756en
dc.titleA reexamination of marital status and the earnings of menen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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