| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP7485
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| DP7485 Marriage and Emancipation in The Age of The Pill |
| Lena Edlund; Cecilia Machado
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| 发表日期 | 2009-10-04
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| 出版年 | 2009
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Women?s economic emancipation arguably took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While ubiquitous, its origins are not well understood. In an influential paper, Goldin and Katz [2002] pointed to the role of unmarried women?s access to the oral contraceptive (the Pill), ushered in by the extension of legal rights to "mature minors" in the late 1960s early 1970s. However, the Pill was FDA approved already in 1960, and many states allowed a minor to marry, thereby emancipating her with respect to medical treatment, including the Pill. By the mid-1970s, the minimum marriage age had been lowered to 18 in almost all states. Exploiting changes in the legal rights of young adults by state, we find evidence that the Pill made early marriage more attractive and facilitated women?s educational and occupational attainments. Marriage combined with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student aid and ability to borrow against future earnings. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Contraceptive pill
Education
Marriage
Occupation
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp7485
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536322
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Lena Edlund,Cecilia Machado. DP7485 Marriage and Emancipation in The Age of The Pill. 2009.
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