Author: | Sweeney, M. M. |
Title: | Two Decades of Family Change: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage |
Journal: | American Sociological Review
2002 : FEB, VOL. 67:1, p. 132-147 |
Index terms: | FAMILIES CHANGE ECONOMICS MARRIAGE |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The author answers the question whether the relationship between economic prospects and marriage formation in the United States has changed in recent decades. The author states that to answer this question, a discrete-time event-history analysis was conducted using data from multiple cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. Among women, results indicate growth in the importance of earnings for marriage formation between the early baby-boom cohort (born between 1950 and 1954) and late baby-boom cohort (born between 1961 and 1965). Evidence of cohort change in the relationship between men's economic prospects and marriage, however, is limited. |
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