Advantages of marriage for grad students - 10/06

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- WANT TO GET AHEAD? GET HITCHED

Another brick in the wall - another study to print and keep in your files! -
diane 

A study comparing the educational outcomes of married, cohabiting and single
students was published on InsideHigherEd.com today.  For full story, go to
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/20/marriage

Want to Get Ahead? Get Hitched
October 20, 2006 
A year ago, a graduate student in economics at Cornell University released a
study showing that men who are married are more likely to finish doctoral
programs than are single men. When Inside Higher Ed wrote about the study,
the graduate student, Joseph Price, received numerous questions from readers
wanting to know just how far the marriage advantage took men in academe, and
where it applied to women as well.
Price went back to his data and now is out with  a new study. This one shows
that married men do better than single men in academe not only in finishing
their Ph.D.¹s, but in publishing and landing a first tenure-track job.
Married women have some advantages over their single counterparts, but not
as many as married men do. And students with domestic partners are somewhere
in the middle. The study was based on data from 11,000 graduate students
from 100 departments over a 20-year period. While separate breakdowns were
not available for those couples with and without children, a majority of the
men and women in the study who were married had children while in graduate
school. 

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