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Title: Desirability of Partner Traits and Two Decades of Change in the Marriage Market: A One-and-a-Half Sex Model of Marriage

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1.	Olsen, Randall J.
1.	Desirability of Partner Traits and Two Decades of Change in the Marriage Market: A One-and-a-Half Sex Model of Marriage Presented: Washington, DC, Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center, NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference, May 29-30, 2008. Also: http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Research/conferences/NLSYConf/pdf/olsen.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Fertility; Gender; Labor Market Outcomes; Marriage One of the unique features of the NLS program has been its continued interviews on the people originally sampled with proxy interviews being very rare. The individual, not the household or family unit, is the focus of the study and this makes the surveys powerful instruments for the study of lives over the long-run. As we look at ten years of data from the NLSY97, the project enables us to look at these lives through young adulthood, we can look at this new generation's experiences in the context of evolving opportunities and social norms and how those changes shape our society and the labor market. One of the most significant decisions a person makes is the decision to marry, and while this decision may not affect the labor market immediately, in the long run it is a decision with such powerful effects that its impact on shaping the labor market is substantial even if not immediate. Marriage has important effects on fertility. At one time decisions on fertility and decisions on marriage were inextricably entwined. Over the past half-century, this connection has loosened considerably. … the focus of this paper is not on the change in the marriage rate. Instead, the question we seek to answer is whether the process of matching potential spouses with one another has fundamentally changed or not.
	Bibliography Citation Olsen, Randall J. "Desirability of Partner Traits and Two Decades of Change in the Marriage Market: A One-and-a-Half Sex Model of Marriage." Presented: Washington, DC, Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center, NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference, May 29-30, 2008.

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