Technology and the changing family: A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment, and married female labor-force participation

Jeremy Greenwood; Nezih Guner; Georgi Kocharkov; Cezar Santos

doi:10.1257/mac.20130156

Technology and the changing family: A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment, and married female labor-force participation

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-41
Journal	American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20130156
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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Greenwood, J. (Creator), Guner ., N. (Creator), Kocharkov, G. (Creator) & Santos, C. (Creator), ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 10 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.3886/e114069v1, https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/114069/version/V1/view
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Greenwood, J. (Creator), Guner ., N. (Creator), Kocharkov, G. (Creator) & Santos, C. (Creator), ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1 Jan 2016
DOI: 10.3886/e114069, https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/114069
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