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标题：The Changing Nature of Marriage and Divorce
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作者：Matthew Davis
期刊名称：NBER Digest
出版年度：2007
卷号：NOV
出版社：National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
摘要：Marriage rates are at their lowest in the past century, but divorce is less likely today than it was 30 years ago. Even though the divorce rate was rising in the 1970s, the number of children involved in each divorce has been falling since the late 1960s. Fertility and pregnancy control made possible by “the pill” and legalized abortion may help to explain both the recent decline in divorces and a rise in out-of-wedlock births. These are among the intriguing and often unexpected trends documented in Marriage and Divorce: Changes and Driving Forces (NBER Working Paper No. 12944) in which authors Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers find that it’s time to reassess our views of “the American family” given the relatively new and still evolving conditions that now determine whether people marry, stay single, or break-up.