LONDON (Reuters) - 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.

"It has been fairly well documented that married men earn more than single men," Taylor, a labor economist, told Reuters.

"However, our research established the wage premium is related to the wife doing the chores," said the academic who teaches at the University of Essex in eastern England.

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let this be a lesson to you all, ladies.

Cradams said:

I'd probably get whapped if I showed this to my wife.

Now excuse me, I have to go fold the laundry.

Are we back in the stone ages where the wife has to be barefoot and preggers?

Eeeesh!!!

they're interpreting results backward.

more likely, men with higher incomes can afford to have a wife who stays home and does housework

I actually like doing most of the housework.

XxAxX said:

Those were my thoughts exactly.

The real question is ..... I have no idea where I was going with this...

Disregard Edit!
[Edited 6/22/05 12:17pm]