The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in the countries of the developed world threatens the adequacy of the economic support of human reproduction, now increasingly provided by women. Its decline is also probably...

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The Seventies of last century saw a decisive break with the earlier tendencies of the 'golden age'. Particularly important was the return of persistent unemployment. The present paper gives an overview of the effects of this change on subsequent publications in the two core journals American...