Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of sample, by marital status

	Marriage premium		Divorce penalty
	Never married	Married	Married, will divorce	Divorced
Cohabiting	0.12	-	-	0.20
Number of children	0.04 (0.28)	1.16 (1.09)	1.03 (1.03)	0.24 (0.65)
Age	24.59 (4.71)	33.72 (8.38)	29.34 (6.20)	35.89 (8.30)
Potential experience	5.05 (4.55)	13.81 (8.24)	10.23 (6.14)	16.83 (8.19)
Education
Less than high school	0.14	0.11	0.19	0.17
Exactly high school	0.48	0.44	0.49	0.53
Some college	0.18	0.18	0.18	0.19
4+ years of college	0.20	0.27	0.14	0.12
Race
Hispanic	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.07
Black	0.12	0.11	0.13	0.13
White/other	0.82	0.83	0.80	0.80
Hourly wage (2012 $)	16.71 (10.21)	24.66 (15.96)	19.88 (11.23)	19.60 (12.91)
Observations	16,749	32,900	9,016	6,296
Respondents	3,359	4,006	1,566	1,470

Note: Samples are restricted to observations on employed respondents who are included in the models in Figure 1. Observations are weighted using sample weights to be representative of the national population within the age range of the cohort. The married columns refer to individuals in a first marriage. The divorced column refers to those whose first marriage has ended and who have not yet remarried. The racial distribution is estimated at the respondent level.

All other descriptive statistics are estimated at the observation level.