in case of separation. We show that inefficient separation may occur in equilibrium even under consensual divorce law … for increasing divorce rates. …

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland … experience a significant increase in the expected risk of divorce (such as very religious families, or single individuals). Our …

, reflecting the increasing incidence of divorce and the expansion of female labor market participation. In particular, towards the …

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a …

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 …

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 …

of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively … breadwinner-couples have a substantially higher risk of divorce than male breadwinner-couples. In contrast, the equal division …

married households in Norway in the years 1975-1979 whose parents divorce during his or her childhood. We observe the … proximity of the child to his or her father in each year following the divorce and link proximity to children's educational and …. Our results show that closer proximity to the father following a divorce has, on average, a modest negative association …