Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in the life cycle has changed, re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Perspectives
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0895-3309
DOI: 10.1257/jep.21.2.27