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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

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The American Family and Family Economics

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility. …

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Family inequality : diverging patterns in marriage, cohabitation, and childbearing

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A.; Stearns, Jenna E. - 2016

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How bargaining in marriage drives marriage market equilibrium

Pollak, Robert A. - In: Journal of labor economics 37 (2019) 1, pp. 297-321

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The life expectancy of older couples and surviving spouses

Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A. - 2019

Comparisons of individual life expectancies over time and across demographic groups provide information for individuals making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will be alive (joint life expectancy) and the expected...

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