examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …

Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … evidence for an impact of joint custody on divorce rates. In sum, joint custody has increased the stock of married people and …

in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

in the usual way, and an unconventional one allowing them to qualify for a pension by having children, and investing time …

We estimate the effect of divorce legalization on the long-term well-being of children. Our identification strategy … exposed (or not exposed) to divorce as children, thus leading to a difference-in-differences approach. We find that women who … up under illegal divorce. These effects are not found for men. We find no effects of divorce legalization on children …

proximity of the child to his or her father in each year following the divorce and link proximity to children's educational and …This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using … high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into …