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Does a Spouse Slow You Down? Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes

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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/74700
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ILR Working Papers
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI)
Author
Price, Joseph
Abstract

Using data on 11,000 graduate students from 100 departments over a 20 year period, I test whether graduate student outcomes (graduation rates, time to degree, publication success, and initial job placement) differ based on a student’s gender and marital status. I find that married men have better outcomes across every measure than single men. Married women do no worse than single women on any measure and actually have more publishing success and complete their degree in less time. The outcomes of cohabiting students generally fall between those of single and married students.

Date Issued
2006-01-01
Keywords
graduate students
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marriage
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performance
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gender
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marital status
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Required Publisher Statement: Published by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, Cornell University.
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article

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