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Explaining Recent Trends in the U.S. Teen Birth Rate
Kearney, Melissa S. - 2012
We investigate trends in the U.S. rate of teen childbearing between 1981 and 2010, giving particular attention to the sizable decline that has occurred since 1991. Our primary focus is on establishing the role of state-level demographic changes, economic conditions, and targeted policies in...
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Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility : Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J. - 2021
Almost 50 years after domestic U.S. family planning programs began, their effects on childbearing remain controversial. Using the county-level roll-out of these programs from 1964 to 1973, this paper reevaluates their shorter- and longer-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the...
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The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States : Historical Evolution and International Comparisons
Witte, Ann Dryden; Trowbridge, Marisol - 2021
Most European governments have universal, consolidated, education-based ECE programs that are available from early in the morning to late in the evening throughout the year. European ECE programs are uniformly of high quality, generally last at least three years, and are funded to serve all...
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...
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From Assortative to Ashortative Coupling : Men's Height, Height Heterogamy, and Relationship Dynamics in the United States
Weitzman, Abigail - 2014
) short men marry and divorce at lower rates than others and (4) both men's height relative to other men and their height …
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Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States : Evidence from the Civil War Pension
Salisbury, Laura - 2014
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the effect this had on the rate of remarriage among these...
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Making Big Changes : The Impact of Moves on Marriage Among U.S. Army Personnel
Carter, Susan - 2018
We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a...
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Two Papers on the Recent Rise in U.S. Divorce Rate
Michael, Robert T. - 2021
This paper seeks to explain the recent rise in U.S. divorce rates using an economic framework. Annual time series data … attributes the recent increase in divorce to improved contraceptive technology, reduced average duration of marriage (resulting … from the age distribution of the population) and income growth. Projections suggest a flattening of the divorce rate series …
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Marriage Bars : Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920'S to 1950'S
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Modern personnel practices, social consensus, and the Depression acted in concert to delay the emergence of married women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by firms and local school boards, from about the early 1900's...
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Marriage Patterns in the United States
Bloom, David E.; Bennett, Neil G. - 2021
This paper analyzes cohort marriage patterns in the United States in order to determine whether declining rates of first marriage are due to changes in the timing of marriage, the incidence of marriage, or both. Parametric models, which are well-suited to the analysis of censored or truncated...
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