This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need … and divorces in Germany between 1997 and 2013 to show that increased means testing made the formation of interethnic …

: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … popular. We further notice that divorce is an extremely costly process, and once allowed it may act as an independent reason … subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic. …

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline –albeit non-significant– in the number of marriages. While …