Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment, and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; Santos, Cezar

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“…Choo, Seitz, and Siow (2008) is a first attempt at introducing labor supply in the Choo and Siow model, and Chiappori, Costa Dias, and Meghir (2015) is a big step forward, introducing not only labor supply and endogenous education (like Greenwood et al (2016)), but also savings and unobserved heterogeneity.…”

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“…INTRODUCTION SINCE WORLD WAR II, the labor force participation of married women has increased dramatically. Many explanations have been proposed: technological change in the household (Greenwood et al (2016), is a recent contribution), contraception (Goldin and Katz (2002)), changes in wage distributions by gender and experience (e.g., Knowles (2013)), cultural change (Fernández (2013)), structural change in the economy (Galor and Weil (1996)), child care (Attanasio, Low, and Sanchez-Marcos (2008)), divorce laws (Fernández and Wong (2014)). By 1990, the labor supply of married women has reached a plateau, and yet strong differences in time uses persist between men and women, and between single and married persons.…”

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Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production

Goussé¹,

Jacquemet²,

Robin³

2017

Econometrica

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We develop a search model of marriage where men and women draw utility from private consumption and leisure, and from a non-market good that is produced in the home using time resources. We condition individual decisions on wages, education, and an index of family attitudes. A match-specific, stochastic bliss shock induces variation in matching given wages, education, and family values, and triggers renegotiation and divorce. Using BHPS (1991-2008) data, we take as given changes in wages, education, and family values by gender, and study their impact on marriage decisions and intrahousehold resource allocation. The model allows to evaluate how much of the observed gender differences in labor supply results from wages, education, and family attitudes. We find that family attitudes are a strong determinant of comparative advantages in home production of men and women, whereas education complementarities induce assortative mating through preferences.

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Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production

Goussé¹,

Jacquemet²,

Robin³

2017

Econometrica

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“…Technological progress in the home has also been shown as a significant driver of the decline in marriage and rise in divorce in the United States, which have had additional effects on US employment gaps and income inequality, especially between households (Greenwood et al, 2016). Other advances in the household affecting the time costs of women's reproductive role and their comparative advantage in childcare, for example instant (baby) formula, were probably significant in married women's increasing participation in the mid-part of the Nineteenth century (Albanesi and Olivetti, 2016).…”

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On Why Gender Employment Equality in Britain Has Stalled Since the Early 1990s

2018

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Using over four decades of British micro data, this paper asks why progress in closing the gender employment rate gap has stalled since the early 1990s. We find that how partner characteristics affected women's likelihood of employment explain most of the gap's shift in trend. Instead, changes to the structure of employment both between and within industry sectors impacted the gap at approximately constant rates throughout the period. There is evidence that continuing improvements in women's employment when they had children or higher qualifications worked towards narrowing the gap, even after progress overall had stalled.

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“…Chiappori, Iyigun and Weiss [6] discuss how positive assortative mating provides a marriage market return for female educational investment. Greenwood et al [7] study the relationship between assortative mating and household income inequality in a structural model, the goal of the paper is to develop a unified theory capable to explain marriages decline and divorce increase since 1960 in America. Therefore, our article is a theory of economic development since it adds some other components such that corruption, early fecundity, polygamous and social status phenomenon not studied in the standard literature focused on Western countries' marriages evolution.…”

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Marriages, Polygamous, Early Fertility and Development in Congo

Loubaki¹

2017

JHRSS

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This article uses endogenous growth theory to show that, both education and labor force participation of women are crucial mechanics of economic development. In an economic environment that prevailing polygamous and early fertility which yields inequalities among women, unemployed labor force is due to difficulties to ensure education for all the children born from different mothers. Thus increases of poverty create a feedback effect since the children's off-springs become also parental financial support. Indeed, introducing moral hazard and corruption in the economy due to absence of skills, thus information hold is not revealed in order to win money to support the big family. The article also shows that, social inheritance rule is modified, i.e., it may decrease a lot and yield to poverty trap and famine zone or may increase a lot and reach the highest levels or may converge depending on parental polygamous degree or remain equal to the parental status. Consequently, this article provides development foundations focused on women social promotion for development take-off in poorest countries.

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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment, and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Cited by 134 publications

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Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production

Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production

On Why Gender Employment Equality in Britain Has Stalled Since the Early 1990s

Marriages, Polygamous, Early Fertility and Development in Congo

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