In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes …. -- risk sharing ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …

no-fault divorce reforms reducing the security offered by marriage, in particular for women. …

marriage as well as for a precautionary attitude towards risk. - Consumption Insurance ; Marriage …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …