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Title: Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage
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Rotz, Dana |
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Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage Journal of Human Resources 51,4 (Fall 2016): 961-1002. Also: http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/51/4/961 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Divorce; National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) American divorce rates rose from the 1950s to the 1970s peaked around 1980, and have fallen ever since. The mean age at marriage also substantially increased after 1970. I explore the extent to which the rise in age at marriage can explain the decrease in divorce rates for cohorts marrying after 1980 using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and National Survey of Family Growth. Three different empirical approaches suggest that the increase in women's age at marriage is the main proximate cause of the fall in divorce rates. |
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Rotz, Dana. "Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage." Journal of Human Resources 51,4 (Fall 2016): 961-1002.
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