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

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov and Cezar Santos

No 8831, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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. 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 U.S. 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 assortative mating play in determining income inequality.

Keywords: household production; married female labor supply; education; assortative mating; marriage and divorce; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 J12 J22 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 66 pages
Date: 2015-02
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Published - published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-41.

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