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The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage / Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenwood, Jeremy.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26410.
- NBER working paper series no. w26410
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Wife’s Protector
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- The 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. This led to a sexual revolution, which witnessed a rise in premarital sex and out-of-wedlock births, and a decline in marriage. The impact of contraception on married and single life is analyzed here both theoretically and quantitatively. The analysis is conducted using a model where people search for partners. Upon finding one, they can choose between abstinence, a premarital sexual relationship, and marriage. The model is confronted with some stylized facts about premarital sex and marriage over the course of the 20th century. Some economic history is also presented.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2019.
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