%0 Report
        %A Greenwood, Jeremy
%A Guner, Nezih
%A Kopecky, Karen A.
        %T The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12760
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12760
        %X The 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. This led to a sexual revolution, which witnessed a rise in premarital sex and out-of-wedlock births, and a decline in marriage. The impact of contraception on married and single life is analyzed here both theoretically and quantitatively. The analysis is conducted using a model where people search for partners. Upon finding one, they can choose between abstinence, marriage, and a premarital sexual relationship. The model is confronted with some stylized facts about premarital sex and marriage over the course of the 20th century. Some economic history is also presented.
        %K number of partners
%K never-married population
%K history
%K contraceptive technology
%K age of marriage
%K out-of-wedlock births
%K premarital sex
%K singles