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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