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Factors Affecting Divorce : A Study of the Terman Sample

Michael, Robert T. - 1976

Within the past few years, renewed interest in understanding marital behavior has resulted in a number of studies which focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a brief rationale for and an estimation of...

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Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families

Kleven, Henrik - 2020

adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark …

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The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates

Lee, Jin Young - 2011

allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the …

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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race

Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn … children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across …

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Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

Stevenson, Betsey - 2008

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the...

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Social Security and the Timing of Divorce

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2007

Social Security provides spousal benefits in retirement to secondary workers in married couples based on the primary worker's earnings record. In addition, Social Security pays spousal benefits to divorced secondary workers whose marriages lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed...

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Methodological Issues in the Evaluation of Parental Involvement Laws : Evidence from Texas

Colman, Silvie - 2006

The number of states that require parental involvement in a minor's decision to terminate a pregnancy has more than doubled since 1988. Congress is currently considering legislation that would further limit access to abortion for minors who reside in states that enforce parental involvement...

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Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law : Divorce Laws and Family Distress

Stevenson, Betsey - 2003

Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing of divorce law reform across states provides a useful quasi-experiment with which to examine the effects of this change. We analyze state panel data to estimate changes in...

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Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results

Wolfers, Justin - 2003

Application of the Coase Theorem to marital bargaining suggests that shifting from a consent divorce regime to no-fault unilateral divorce laws should not affect divorce rates. Each iteration of the empirical literature examining the evolution of divorce rates across US states has yielded...

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Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce

Gruber, Jonathan - 2000

Most states in the U.S. allow for unilateral divorce, which increases the ease of divorce by not requiring the explicit consent of both partners. Such regulations have come under fire for their perceived negative consequences for marital stability and resulting child outcomes, but there is no...

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