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Divorced in a flash : the effect of the administrative divorce option on marital stability in the Netherlands
Kabátek, Jan - 2019
Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...
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But who will get Billy? : the effect of child custody laws on marriage
Rose, Elaina; Wong, Crystal Ho Po - 2014
Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended...
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for …This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some …
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The divorce revolution and generalized trust : evidence from the United States 1973 - 2010
Viitanen, Tarja - 2014
to easy divorce culture as a child. The findings are in agreement with the predictions of previous literature regarding …
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Traditional norms, access to divorce and women's empowerment
Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022
Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
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Bargaining under threats: the effect of joint custody laws on intimate partner violence
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Nollenberger, Natalia; Roff, … - 2020
We study the effect of a policy change that exogenously shifted bargaining power from mothers to fathers on intimate partner violence. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment based on a series of reforms in Spain that shifted the custody decision from being unilaterally determined by the mother to...
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Female labor supply and divorce : new evidence from Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; González, Libertad; Keane, Claire; … - 2010
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or...
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The consequences of extending equitable property division divorce laws to cohabitants
Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019
This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in Australia. Using a triple-difference fixed effects approach we show that existing couples are more likely to make relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws...
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The effect of joint custody on marriage and divorce
Halla, Martin - 2009
additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …
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Unequal bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
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