Replication data for: Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment, and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jeremy Greenwood; Nezih Guner; Georgi Kocharkov; Cezar Santos

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Project Citation:

Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih, Kocharkov, Georgi, and Santos, Cezar. Replication data for: Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment, and Married Female Labor-Force Participation. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114069V1

Project Description

Summary: 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. (JEL D13, D31, D83, I20, J12, J16, O33)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
      D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
      D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
      I20 Education and Research Institutions: General
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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