for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we …

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 this paper, I investigate whether the administrative divorce …

to the labour market when they are confronted with a high likelihood of divorce and vice versa. Similarly, work hours …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This relationship holds both over an individual's life …

Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …

Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … evidence for an impact of joint custody on divorce rates. In sum, joint custody has increased the stock of married people and …

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in …

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the … risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to … financial literacy, contributing to uncover the mechanisms through which the risk of divorce may affect savings. Our results are …

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

6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the …Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age …

We investigate the divorce patterns among non‐Western immigrants and natives in Denmark. We focus on marriages entered … on or after arrival to Denmark and analyze whether inter‐ethnic marriages result in higher divorce rates and whether … divorce behavior differs between first- and second‐generation immigrants and native couples. We show that inter‐ethnic couples …