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| Title: | | Marriage and divorce since World War II: analyzing the role of technological progress on the formation of households  |
| Authors: | | Greenwood, Jeremy Guner, Nezih |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3313 |
| Abstract: | | Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor-saving technological progress in the household sector can explain these facts. This makes it more feasible for singles to maintain their own home, and for married women to work. To address this question, a search model of marriage and divorce, which incorporates household production, is developed. An extension looks back at the prewar era. |
| Subjects: | | Marriage divorce hours worked household production household size technological progress |
| JEL: | | E13 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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