The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability …

This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of divorce, with a focus on U ….S. studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the divorce rate and the widening gap in marital instability by … socioeconomic status. We review the role of age at entry into first marriage, including recent analyses that find strikingly …

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …