. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

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 …

find a small positive effect on the probability of divorce, but no effect of the husband's job displacement on fertility …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

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 …

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …

women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We focus on the partnersﾒ involuntary job loss experiences, and analyse … regional unemployment rate, we also find a substantial discouraged worker effect …