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 …

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 …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated … entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … using data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth. The main finding is that the association between age at … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late …

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 - in line with theoretical predictions - offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most probably …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total …

) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. …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 …