the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past …

remarriage within three years of dissolution. The analysis is based on the demographic and work histories in the 1980 Women and … investigate the impact of women's work experience on the probabilities of marital dissolution and subsequent remarriage. Work … tends to increase the risk of marital dissolution, but it is also associated with quicker remarriage. The implications of …

This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also … assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period …

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to …

school than children living with their two parents. This result has been used to argue that softening divorce legislation … parents. Next, I exploit the large increase in separation rates following the 1975 divorce law reform (as well as cross …-regional variations in divorce rates) to show that the performance gap of single-parent children is a declining function of the separation …

changes there in the past fifteen years which have affected marriage, fertility, divorce and household formation. During the … 1970s, equal pay policies altered the timing of marriage and fertility, and they may have affected the likelihood of … divorce. Reform of the law concerning divorce accelerated the upward trend in divorce, and monetary and fiscal policies …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

substitute for redistribution, so that optimal redistribution is reduced. We also introduce a divorce option. Redistributive …

concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … us to look at the impact of marital break-up throughout the income distribution, however, we find that divorce greatly … supply, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. …