PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anelli, Massimo
AU  - Giuntella, Osea
AU  - Stella, Luca
TI  - Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.1020-11223R1
DP  - 2024 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 443--469
VI  - 59
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/2/443.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/2/443.full
AB  - This study examines how the exposure to robots and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Robot penetration also triggered an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline—albeit nonsignificant—in the number of marriages. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital births.