Data and Code for: The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Laura Salisbury, York University (Canada); Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto
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Project Citation:
Lafortune, Jeanne, Salisbury, Laura, and Siow, Aloysius. Data and Code for: The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2025. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-01-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/E195183V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Over the last century, resource allocations within families changed
significantly, as did marriage matching patterns. College educated women
became more likely to marry (and, to a lesser extent, have children) than less
educated women. A large literature documents these patterns and proposes a
variety of explanations. We review this literature. Then, we provide a unified
empirical framework, which can integrate these mechanisms. We demonstrate the
usefulness of that framework by employing it in decennial US censuses and
showing that a combination of technological changes that increased the value
of children's education and enabled more educated women to devote more time to
childrearing are consistent with multiple behavioral changes within marriage,
on the marriage market, and before marriage.
significantly, as did marriage matching patterns. College educated women
became more likely to marry (and, to a lesser extent, have children) than less
educated women. A large literature documents these patterns and proposes a
variety of explanations. We review this literature. Then, we provide a unified
empirical framework, which can integrate these mechanisms. We demonstrate the
usefulness of that framework by employing it in decennial US censuses and
showing that a combination of technological changes that increased the value
of children's education and enabled more educated women to devote more time to
childrearing are consistent with multiple behavioral changes within marriage,
on the marriage market, and before marriage.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1/1/1900 – 12/31/2020
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