%0 Report
        %A Greenwood, Jeremy
%A Guner, Nezih
%A Kocharkov, Georgi
%A Santos, Cezar
        %T Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8831
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8831
        %X 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.
        %K household production
%K married female labor supply
%K education
%K assortative mating
%K marriage and divorce
%K inequality