Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner

NBER Working Paper No. 10772
Issued in September 2004, Revised in June 2008

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Daron Acemoglu, Alvaro Aguirre, Kei Muraki, Claudia Olivetti and Juan Sanchez are thanked for helpful comments. Financial support from the Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (Spain) and the NSF is gratefully acknowledged. An abridged version of this paper, under the same title, will appear in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, 23, edited by Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, University of Chicago Press. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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