If that headline doesn’t grab your attention, new research from Prof. Lamar Pierce on the “Psychological and sexual costs of income comparison in marriage” should. The study shows that men married to women with higher incomes are more likely to use erectile dysfunction medication than their male breadwinner counterparts.
Pierce and his co-authors Michael S. Dahl and Jimmi Nielsen based their research on data collected in Denmark. Their paper is published this month in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Lamar Pierce is an associate professor of strategy at Olin Business School. Dahl is a professor at Aalborg University and Nielsen at Aarhus University Hospital, both in Denmark.
