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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Sorry, it's well documented.

Don’t be a bachelor: Why married men work harder, smarter and make more money (the Washington Post)


The article has links to the studies, and a lot of other data about societal effects of marriage on men. It's worth a read.

Apologies in advance for double-posting/double-quoting, but how do these studies control for X factors such as ambition, intellect, etc.? It seems to me that a correlation between men who work and are married could be easily explained by the fact that they have more desirable personality traits, or could be less prone to risk-taking behaviour (i.e. it's safer to be married). I don't think it necessarily proves that the decline in social pressure is what's responsible for the economic disparity between married men and single men.