TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Greenwood, Jeremy
AU  - Guner, Nezih
AU  - Kocharkov, Georgi
AU  - Santos, Cezar
        TI  - Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
        PY  - 2015/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8831
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8831
        AB  - Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed and estimated to fit the postwar U.S. data. Two underlying driving forces are considered: technological progress in the household sector and shifts in the wage structure. The analysis emphasizes the joint role that educational attainment, married female labor-force participation, and assortative mating play in determining income inequality.
        KW  - household production
KW  - married female labor supply
KW  - education
KW  - assortative mating
KW  - marriage and divorce
KW  - inequality
        ER  -