Here’s a good excuse to be a SAHM.
Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework, according to a report Wednesday from Britain’s Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER).
Academics Elena Bardasi and Mark Taylor found that a married man whose wife does not go out to work but is primarily responsible for the cooking and cleaning earns about 3 percent more than comparably employed single men.
But that wage premium disappears if wives go out to work themselves or don’t do most of the housework.
From Yahoo.
I think I’ll be using that as evidence for my case once I am married. :-D
Maybe that’s because they have to work harder to support their families. After all, if the wife’s not workin’ then there needs to be more income.
See, lots of explanations.
Or maybe they work more because they don’t want to come home to a nagging housewife!!
Wow, I am such a freak. A cynical, cynical freak. Just kidding, I love you!