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 …

This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using … be trusted.” The main explanatory variables include the occurrence of parental divorce for the whole sample and the age … generalized trust is significantly affected by parental divorce for both men and women. This main result is very robust to …

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal amount of education) then acts like an insurance device in case of divorce …

estimate the effect of a divorce on the hazard of leaving The Netherlands using the "timing-of-events" model. The model allows … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided … into three groups based on the Human Development Index (HDI) of their country of birth. We find that divorce has a large …

marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the …

After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been …

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 …

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 …

in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting … supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates. Countervailing … effects ﾖ in line with theoretical predictions ﾖ offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most probably …

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 …