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Title: Women, Men, and Changing Families: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage
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Sweeney, Megan Mcdonnell |
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Women, Men, and Changing Families: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage CDE Working Paper No. 97-14, Center for Demography and Ecology, Madison WI, November 1997. Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu:80/cde/cdewp/97-14ab.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Center for Demography and Ecology Keyword(s): Economic Changes/Recession; Economics, Demographic; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Gender Differences; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Based on data from multiple cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience (NLS), this study uses continuous-time proportional hazard models to investigate whether the relationship between economic prospects and entry into first marriage has changed in recent decades. Results indicate substantial change in marriage patterns between the early and late baby-boom cohorts. While women's economic prospects have become more important for marriage formation over time, men's economic prospects have generally become less important. In contrast to theories linking women's economic independence to declines in marriage, economic prospects are positively related to marriage of both men and women in the later cohort. These findings imply, with respect to the relationship between economic prospects and marriage, that men and women are increasingly coming to resemble one another. Results are somewhat less conclusive for blacks than for whites. |
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Sweeney, Megan Mcdonnell. "Women, Men, and Changing Families: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage." CDE Working Paper No. 97-14, Center for Demography and Ecology, Madison WI, November 1997. |