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Title: Anatomy of the Growth in the US Divorce Rate, 1970-1980

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: From the end of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s, the divorce rate increaseddramatically in all of the U.S. This paper uses the Current Population Survey dataand the divorce data of the National Vital Statistics System of the U.S. to decomposethe variation of the divorce rate over the decade 1970-1980 into several demographiccomponents: age, number of children, educational level, and region of residence.From the analysis it emerges that the increase in the rate was not primarily due to achange of the composition of the population. Young women with children, and loweducated women highly contributed to the growth in the divorce rate.

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Authors: Marcassa, Stefania

Publisher: Paris School of Economics

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Topics: Family and Marriage

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