November 17, 2006
Tying the Knot Helps Students, Especially Men, Succeed in Graduate School
Graduate students who worry that marriage will derail their plans to earn doctoral degrees can relax. Being hitched, says a new study, is particularly good for male students and is beneficial for female ones as well.
Joseph Price, a graduate student in economics at Cornell University, who is married with three children, says he had always felt at odds with the common wisdom that having a spouse while in graduate school would slow down a student. "It's hard to do research," says Mr.
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