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Title: Till College Do Us Part: Exploring the link between divorce and rising college attainment for women
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Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: In the 1970s, the divorce rate in the United States increased sharply, largely because of changes to divorce laws that permitted one partner to dissolve the marriage without the other’s consent. At roughly the same time, the share of women with college educations also rose steeply, and since then women’s college attainment has accelerated while men’s has stalled. Women’s rising education has coincided with an enormous increase in labor force participation by married women. Could there be a link between divorce and women’s college achievement? And could relations between husbands and wives also explain changes in the labor market over the past half century, including the mass movement of wives into the workforce? Recent research by Minneapolis Fed visiting . . .
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Authors: Davies, Phil
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Topics: Education, Other
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