divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

. We also examine the impacts of various family structures and compare social orphans (non-orphaned children not living …