focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a … brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration …

to family status transitions. For both single individuals and married couples who do not experience a death or divorce … transition, either a death or a divorce, exhibit much slower asset growth and often experience a large decline in asset values at …

in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …

(partly due to "banking" benefits for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and … estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

Participation (SIPP). We then exploit variation in laws governing divorce across states and over time to quasi …-experimentally identify how the timing of an exogenous increase in divorce risk (that is, the introduction of unilateral divorce) impacts … employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form …

property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion …