Antonio, Tracee Joy N.Lagac, Joyce Marie P.2025-01-282025-01-282009-01https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/4283Using data on professional basketball players from the Philippine Basketball Association, this research provides evidence regarding the marital pay premiums earned by basketball players. Cross-sectional estimates suggest that married players receive a 22% higher salary as compared to never married players. Our findings provide support to the marriage premium literature where married men receive significantly higher wages than never married men. irrespective of the variables included in the model. Using the fixed- effects approach, our findings suggest that it might be the case that more productive and high-earning basketball players are being selected into marriage. However, it doesn't account for the entire observed premium found among married basketball players. In addition, we found little evidence to suggest that the marriage premium is a consequence of specialization. Finally. we used Oaxaca's decomposition model to test the discrimination hypothesis. Based on our estimation, we found substantial evidence that almost 52% of the differential is attributed to discrimination. Computing for the actual discrimination coefficient, we obtained a 0.44 discrimination between married and single players.enMarriage premiumProfessional athletesAthlete performanceMarital statusLabor economicsBasketball associationPBAThesis