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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266066
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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937272
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316256
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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129779
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Marriage and divorce : the role of labor market institutions
Schulz, Bastian; Siuda, Fabian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263729
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Marriage and Divorce : The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Schulz, Bastian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824595
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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363961
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187890
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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Globalization, gender, and the family
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2019
This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure because it influences work-life balance. Employing population register data on all births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee linked data for Denmark, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012031126