Family economics writ large

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace. Macroeconomic models explaining these aggregate trends are surveyed. The relent-less flow of technological progress and its role in shaping family life are stressed

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Year of publication:	November 2016
Authors:	Greenwood, Jeremy ; Guner, Nezih ; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume
Publisher:	St. Louis, MO : Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Research Division
Subject:	assortative mating \| baby boom \| baby bust \| family economics \| female labor supply \| fertility \| household income inequality \| household production \| human capital \| macroeconomics \| marriage and divorce \| quality-quantity trade off \| quantitative theorypremarital sex \| quantitative theory \| single mothers \| social change \| survey paper \| technological progress \| women's rights \| Frauenerwerbstätigkeit \| Familienplanung \| Family planning \| Erwerbstätigkeit \| Employment \| Weibliche Arbeitskräfte \| Women workers \| Fertilität \| Fertility \| Haushaltseinkommen \| Household income \| Geschlechterunterschiede \| Gender differences \| Humankapital \| Human capital \| Ehe \| Marriage \| Scheidung \| Divorce \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change \| Sexualität \| Sexuality \| Frauenbewegung \| Women's movement \| Makroökonomisches Modell \| Macroeconomic model

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 78 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Working paper. - Saint Louis, Mo., ZDB-ID 2135914-3. - Vol. 2016, 026A
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.20955/wp.2016.026 [DOI]
Classification:	D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ; E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment ; J1 - Demographic Economics ; O1 - Economic Development ; O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity ; Z1 - Cultural Economics
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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