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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; Santos, Cezar
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Autonomous University of Barcelona; ICREA; Autonomous University of Barcelona; University of Konstanz
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MACROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7707
• DOI: 10.1257/mac.20130156
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1-41
• 关键词: cycle; appliances; engines; working; TRENDS; women

摘要

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.