Technology and the Changing Family: a Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
39 Pages Posted: 6 Jan 2012 Last revised: 18 Jun 2022
There are 4 versions of this paper
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Technology and the Changing Family: a Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Date Written: January 2012
Abstract
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-à-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 married 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.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?
Recommended Papers
-
Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition
By Oded Galor and David N. Weil
-
By Oded Galor and David N. Weil
-
The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth
By Oded Galor and David N. Weil
-
The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth
By Oded Galor and David N. Weil
-
By Gary D. Hansen and Edward C. Prescott
-
Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth
By Oded Galor and Omer Moav
-
Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth
By Oded Galor and Omer Moav
-
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory
By Oded Galor
-
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory
By Oded Galor
-
From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality in the Process of Development
By Oded Galor and Omer Moav