regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce … increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are … appears consistent with a causal role for marriage. Thus, exposure to easier divorce regulation as a youth appears to worsen …

brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration … focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a … chosen from children enrolled in California schools in urban areas. It included children, preselected by their teachers …

allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the … extremely fragile. We conclude first that the impact of unilateral divorce laws remains unclear. Second, extending Wolfers …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended … controls. I find instead that unilateral divorce led to an increase in both married and unmarried female labor force …

lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed in less than ten years, no spousal benefits are paid. The spousal … primary worker and the secondary worker. We examine whether these couples, who have more to gain from extending their marriage … to ten years, are more likely to delay divorce to the tenth year relative to a control group. We find that vulnerable …

Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing … of divorce law reform across states provides a useful quasi-experiment with which to examine the effects of this change … change in divorce law. Suicide rates are used as a quantifiable measure of wellbeing, albeit one that focuses on the extreme …

within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat …Application of the Coase Theorem to marital bargaining suggests that shifting from a consent divorce regime to no …-fault unilateral divorce laws should not affect divorce rates. Each iteration of the empirical literature examining the evolution of …

children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear … families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children. We analyze outcomes for almost … 75,000 Norwegian children, all of whom, until they were at least age 18, lived in nuclear families. Controlling for a …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates … graduate parents use marriage as a commitment device to facilitate intensive joint investments in their children. For less …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …