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 … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … just improve the allocation of risk at the individual level, but also have implications for the allocation of risk at the …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected.We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous ﾖ that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

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 the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …