Does Marriage Reduce Male Earnings Inequality?
Distribution
Outcome
Conditional
Statistics
10
th
-90
th
Percentiles
+ Means & Crosshairs
− Significance Tests
Covariates
0 = Age, Education, Skill, Wave, Area
00 = 0 + Person
1 = 00 + Cohabitation, Separation, Remarriage
3 = 1 + Time At Work
4 = 1 + Children
1x = 1 without age interactions
Person-Years
A ∧ B ∧ C ∧ D
A ∧ B ∧ C ∧ D ∧ E
A = Black & White Men
B = Who Eventually Marry
C = Who the BLS Does Not Drop
D = While Not In School
E = Through 1996
Marriage
Years
−YearBefore
−Cohab
+Kids
Dichotomous
Response
Earnings
Wages
Results are not (yet) available for the equation
CQR7 - Spline
estimates over the dataset
Men not dropped: Wages
.