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Title: Essays on the Economics of the Family
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Rotz, Dana |
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Essays on the Economics of the Family Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Divorce; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In my first essay, I explore the extent to which the rise in age at marriage can explain the rapid decrease in divorce rates for cohorts marrying from 1980 to 2004. Three different empirical approaches all demonstrate that an increase in women's age at marriage can explain at least 60 percent of the decline in the hazard of divorce since 1980. I further develop and simulate an integrated model of the marriage market to demonstrate that monotone decreases in gains to marriage could lead to both the initial rise in divorce and its subsequent fall. |
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Rotz, Dana. Essays on the Economics of the Family. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 2012. |