TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Greenwood, Jeremy
AU  - Guner, Nezih
AU  - Vandenbroucke, Guillaume
        TI  - Family Economics Writ Large
        PY  - 2016/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10362
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10362
        AB  - Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the labor market. Macroeconomic models explaining these aggregate trends are surveyed. The relentless flow of technological progress and its role in shaping family life are stressed.
        KW  - quality-quantity trade off
KW  - marriage and divorce
KW  - macroeconomics
KW  - human capital
KW  - household production
KW  - household income inequality
KW  - fertility
KW  - female labor supply
KW  - family economics
KW  - baby bust
KW  - baby boom
KW  - assortative mating
KW  - premarital sex
KW  - quantitative theory
KW  - single mothers
KW  - social change
KW  - survey paper
KW  - technological progress
KW  - women's rights
        ER  -