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 …

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

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal amount of education) then acts like an insurance device in case of divorce …

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland … experience a significant increase in the expected risk of divorce (such as very religious families, or single individuals). Our …

In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female …-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children … economic consequence of divorce on the welfare of fathers, mothers and children under alternative behavioral assumptions …

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 …