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dc.contributor.authorIsen, Adamen
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Betseyen
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-03-
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-14T08:26:15Z-
dc.date.available2010-05-14T08:26:15Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/30703-
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and 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. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as financial security, are happier in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in marital patterns by education for men.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x2940en
dc.subject.jelJ10en
dc.subject.jelJ11en
dc.subject.jelJ12en
dc.subject.jelJ13en
dc.subject.jelJ15en
dc.subject.jelJ16en
dc.subject.jelI20en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmarriageen
dc.subject.keyworddivorceen
dc.subject.keywordfertilityen
dc.subject.keywordeducationen
dc.subject.stwEheen
dc.subject.stwScheidungen
dc.subject.stwFrauenbildungen
dc.subject.stwBildungsniveauen
dc.subject.stwFruchtbarkeiten
dc.subject.stwFamiliensoziologieen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleWomen's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn620118911en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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