divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family …

, childcare use, and divorce rates. Women’s responses, however, were highly heterogeneous, depending on their partners’ labour … to receive the tax credit, they also experienced a greater risk of divorce. We find virtually no effect for women with …

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 …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female … money transfer received by mothers after divorce. We interpret these results as evidence against Becker-Coase bargains and …

We estimate the effect of divorce legalization on the long-term well-being of children. Our identification strategy … relies on exploiting the different timing of divorce legalization across European countries. Using European Community … Household Panel data, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were raised in an environment where divorce was banned with …

We model the bargaining process of parents over custody at the time of divorce. First we assume an institutional … custody enables more parents to divorce by mutual consent. …

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 …

possible channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The …

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