Parental divorce is a prevalent childhood event. A long literature attempts to estimate the impact of family dissolution on children's human capital formation. Previous studies applying sibling fixed effects estimators find that the timing of divorce has no direct effects on children's outcomes...

This paper studies the effects of non-market outside options on measures of female job mobility using a hand-collected data set of 3,041 MBA resumes. Specifically, I examine two aspects of the household: spousal assets and children. In order to proxy for these unobserved household...

This study examines implications for mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by focusing on deals that are subsequently divested. A comprehensive data set on the corporate divorce phenomenon during the past quarter of a century is constructed with financial news as well as SEC filings. Using this...