This paper explores the effect of divorce law reform on fertility. By modifying the value of marriage, the adoption of … no-fault and unilateral divorce may impact fertility decisions. To identify the effects of those reforms on fertility, we … divorce law reforms have a negative and permanent effect on fertility. These findings are robust to alternative specifications …

In this paper, we examine the role of the business cycle in divorce. To do so, we use a panel of 30 European countries … covering the period from 1991 to 2010. We find a negative effect of the unemployment rate on the divorce rate, pointing to a … pro-cyclical evolution of the divorce rate, even after controlling for socio-economic variables and unobservable …

This paper studies the impact of culture on the fertility decisions of adolescent women. To identify this effect, we … use the epidemiological approach, exploiting the variations in fertility rates of teen women by ancestor’s home country …. Then, differences in fertility rates of adolescent women by national origin can be considered as supporting evidence of the …

The economic literature examining changes in divorce rates is not conclusive since legal reforms have been found to … have permanent, transitory or no effect on divorce rates. This paper studies differences in divorce rates among 16 European … countries from 1930 to 2006, by exploiting time-series analysis. We find that 37.5% of the divorce rate’s series are stationary …

This paper explores the response of the divorce rate to law reform introducing unilateral divorce after controlling for … law reforms concerning the aftermath of divorce, which are omitted from most previous works. We introduce two main policy … Enforcement program. Because those reforms affect divorce decisions by counteracting the reallocation of property rights generated …

In this paper, we study the evolution of US divorce rates across states, from 1956 to 1998. By using a cluster … divorce rates. We find strong support for the club classification. For the overall 1956–1998 period, we obtain evidence of …-unilateral divorce reform period (1956–1972), we find that most of the states had converging divorce rates within several convergence …