Atteneder, Christine; Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We model the bargaining process of parents over custody at the time of divorce. First we assume an institutional … setting where only sole custody is available. In a second step we reform this institutional setting and introduce the … possibility of joint custody. We show that some parents, who would not be able to find an agreement in a sole custody regime, can …