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 …

, without the rise 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 …

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …

targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to … employment in developing and emerging countries. On the contrary, it might reduce average unemployment and narrow the output gap …

explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …