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 …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes …

legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …-difference estimations with fixed effects. We confirm the relative increase in divorce among matrilocal women and, for those who stay married …

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 …

If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an … prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or spatial variation in divorce legislation (e.g., across US states ….e., the legalization of divorce. In Ireland, the right to divorce was introduced in 1996, followed by an acceleration of …