Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the … reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce that demonstrates that divorce is optimal when a couple's joint … qualify for Medicaid as exogenous variation in the incidence of divorce (as it was only implemented by some states). We find …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … spouses, not only because they reflect a mismatch in terms of baseline happiness, but because they matter as such. -- Divorce …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such activities, however, are characterized by gender role bias through, for …, while couples in which the wife takes on typically male chores are more likely to divorce. The paper tests this hypothesis …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …