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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

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Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-a-vis the college educated. Additionally, assortative mating has risen; i.e., people are more likely to marry someone of the same educational level today than in the past. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and female labor-force participation is developed and estimated to fit the postwar U.S. data. The role of technological progress in the household sector and shifts in the wage structure for explaining these facts is gauged.

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Paper provided by Economie d'Avant Garde in its series Economie d'Avant Garde Research Reports with number 18.

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Keywords: Assortative mating; education; female labor supply; household production; marriage and divorce; minimum distance estimation;

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  1. Fatih Guvenen & Michelle Rendall, 2013. "Women's emancipation through education: a macroeconomic analysis," Working Papers 704, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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