TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology and the changing family: A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment, and married female labor-force participation
AU - Greenwood, Jeremy
AU - Guner, Nezih
AU - Kocharkov, Georgi
AU - Santos, Cezar
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being more significant for noncollege-educated individuals versus college-educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the noncollege-educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment, and married female labor-force participation is developed and estimated to fit the postwar US data. Two underlying driving forces are considered: technological progress in the household sector and shifts in the wage structure. The analysis emphasizes the joint role that educational attainment, married female labor-force participation, and marital structure play in determining income inequality.
AB - Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being more significant for noncollege-educated individuals versus college-educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the noncollege-educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment, and married female labor-force participation is developed and estimated to fit the postwar US data. Two underlying driving forces are considered: technological progress in the household sector and shifts in the wage structure. The analysis emphasizes the joint role that educational attainment, married female labor-force participation, and marital structure play in determining income inequality.
U2 - 10.1257/mac.20130156
DO - 10.1257/mac.20130156
M3 - Article
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 41
IS - 1
ER -
