Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: Marriage in the U.S. 1968-2010
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Easterlin hypothesis; relative cohort size; relative income; marriage; marriage squeeze;JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2011-08-15 (All new papers)
- NEP-DEM-2011-08-15 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-08-15 (Labour Economics)
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