If participation in the labor market helps to secure women’s outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an … prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or spatial variation in divorce legislation (e.g., across US states ….e., the legalization of divorce. In Ireland, the right to divorce was introduced in 1996, followed by an acceleration of …

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 …