Marriage and divorce since World War II: Analyzing the role of technological progress on the formation of households

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 23, Issue , 2008, Pages 231-276

  Greenwood, Jeremy ^a   Guner, Nezih ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 77649128660     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/593087     Document Type: Article

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