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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 Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Economics of Gender; Employment; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Models; Family Studies; Gender Differences; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this paper is to understand how the relationship between economic prospects and marriage may have changed over the last few decades, with an emphasis on exploring the potential differences between men and women. Given great change in the economic context in which men and women make decisions about relationships since the late 1960s, it is expected that the correlates of marriage may have shifted. This paper uses discrete-time hazard models to analyze data from multiple cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys (young women, young men, and youth samples). The effects of economic and employment characteristics on entry into first marriage are compared for 'early' and 'late' baby boom cohorts of men and women. Particular attention is paid to how these effects may have changed differently for blacks and whites. |
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Sweeney, Megan Mcdonnell. "Women, Men, and Changing Families: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |