@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp12760,
            	author={Greenwood, Jeremy and Guner, Nezih and Kopecky, Karen A.},
            	title={The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage},
            	year={2019},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={12760},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12760},
	abstract={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.},
	keywords={number of partners;never-married population;history;contraceptive technology;age of marriage;out-of-wedlock births;premarital sex;singles},
            }