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Reciprocal Spheres: Educational Advantage and the Marriage Wage Premium Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Husbands; Marriage; Wages, Men; Wages, Women; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Women have made significant gains in education over a time period in which men's educational gains have stagnated. This means that, while in the past most married men had more education than their wives, today, in an increasing number of couples, wives have more education than their husbands. Research shows that such counter-normative gender contexts differentially impact men's and women's behaviors at home and in the workplace. In this paper, I focus on wives' educational advantage as a newly documented form of interpersonal advantage in marriage with potential to shape variation in the marriage wage premium. Using data from the NLSY79 and fixed effects models, I assess how wives' educational advantage affects the marriage wage premium among a cohort where wives' education had begun to exceed husbands' education. This paper offers new evidence that the educational progress women have made in recent decades benefits the men with which they partner. [Also presented at Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017] |
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Mireles, Amanda. "Reciprocal Spheres: Educational Advantage and the Marriage Wage Premium." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |