Marital Roles and Declining Marriage Rates

Ellman, Ira

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1018141

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Marital Roles and Declining Marriage Rates

Ira Mark Ellman

Arizona State University College of Law

December 2006

Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Fall 2007

Abstract:
This essay is an updated, expanded and revised version of the second half of Divorce Rates, Marriage Rates, and the Problematic Persistence of Traditional Marital Roles, published in 2000 and also available on SSRN. It draws on demographic studies and comparative research to examine the persistence of traditional marital roles and its possible relationship to declining marriage rates.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 36

Keywords: marriage, marital roles, gender roles, marriage rates

JEL Classification: J12, J13, J16, J18, K30, K39

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Date posted: October 3, 2007 ; Last revised: February 10, 2008

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Ellman, Ira Mark, Marital Roles and Declining Marriage Rates (December 2006). Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Fall 2007. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1018141 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1018141

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