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November 23, 2015 Marriage Helps Rich Men's Salaries, but Not Poor Ones' While high-earning men might earn a marriage premium, low earners do not, according to Jonathan Marc Bearak at New York University, who analyzed the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979–2010) to investigate the effect of marriage on male earnings. He found that high-earning men see a return to enduring marriage, but for low-earning men earnings actually drop precipitously after a few years of marriage, relative to what his model predicts for someone of their age and education. Marriage therefore reinforces income inequality between men, writes Bearak. Source: Some Men Earn More, Some Men Earn Less: Which Men Earn More When They Marry

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