The Great Transition: Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Ricardo Marto

No 33, Economie d'Avant Garde Research Reports from Economie d'Avant Garde

Abstract: The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, and marriage waned. These trends are also observed in the cross-country data. A model is developed, and then calibrated, to address the trends in the US data. The calibration procedure is closely connected to the underlying economic logic. Three drivers of the great transition are considered: neutral technological progress, skilled-biased technological change, and drops in the price of labor-saving household durables. You can download the Kuznets facts here: https://www.ricardomarto.com/data/ In Handbook of the Economics of the Family, edited by Shelly Lundberg and Alessandra Voena, (Amsterdam: Elsevier), 389-441.

Keywords: average weekly hours; blue-collar jobs; calibration; college premium; education; family economics; fertility; housework. Kuznets; leisure; market work; marriage; neutral technological progress; price of labor-saving household durables; skilled-biased technological change; white-collar jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 E13 J10 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-03
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