among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …

Research on child custody primarily focuses on the well-being of children following divorce. We extend this literature … by examining how the prospect of joint child custody affects marriage-specific investment in children’s private … provides a natural experiment framework with which to examine marriage-specific investment in children. The probability of …

Divorce is, irrespective of the perspective of approaching the phenomenon from the point of view of the society … general. “Family” starts to have other forms than the “official” ones. Divorce is the last step in the process of erosion and … dissolution of the central axis of the family – the marital couple. Despite the fact that we have considered the divorce as the …

; and (ii) the effect of a non-working wife's schooling increases with the length of marriage, whereas the effect of a … working wife’s schooling does not change over the course of marriage. …