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Bloom, David E. - 1985

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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Marriage Dynamics, Earnings Dynamics, and Lifetime Family Income

Altonji, Joseph G.; Hynsjo, Disa M.; Vidangos, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine what determines the family income that men and women experience over their adult lives. To this end, we … of important questions in labor and family economics, including the effects of education and unobserved permanent … rates, work hours, earnings, marriage and spouse characteristics and family income to various shocks. Marital status has a …

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Is Our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage? A New Look at the Marriage Tax

Ilin, Elias; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Pitts, Melinda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married - using SCF and ACS data. Our measure incorporates all major and most minor U.S. tax and benefit programs. And it assumes clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the...

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality

Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable economic developments of the twentieth century. The growth in these indicators was particularly pronounced in the 1970s and 1980s, but it stalled since the early 1990s, especially...

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Two Papers on the Recent Rise in U.S. Divorce Rate

Michael, Robert T. - 1977

This paper seeks to explain the recent rise in U.S. divorce rates using an economic framework. Annual time series data from1920 to 1974 are used in the empirical analysis. The estimated equation tracks the actual series quite well. It attributes the recent increase in divorce to improved...

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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Changes in Assortative Matching : Theory and Evidence for the US

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2020

The extent to which like-with like marry is particularly important for inequality as well as for the outcomes of children that result from the union. In this paper we discuss approaches to the measurement of changes in assortative mating. We derive two key conditions that a well-defined measure...

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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Olivetti, Claudia - 2020

the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a …

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Moms' Time - Married or Not

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time--paid work and household...

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