PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Harry A. Krashinsky TI - Do Marital Status and Computer Usage Really Change the Wage Structure? AID - 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.3.774 DP - 2004 Jul 01 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 774--791 VI - XXXIX IP - 3 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/3/774.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/3/774.full SO - J Hum Resour2004 Jul 01; XXXIX AB - This analysis uses several identification strategies and data sources to control for individual ability and determine the causal effect of marital status and computer usage on wages. Although data from the CPS, NLSY and a data set of identical twins show that there are large cross-sectional effects of these variables, new econometric specifications are applied to these data which indicate that marital status and computer usage are not important causal determinants of earnings, even after adjustments are made for measurement error and within-twin differences in ability.