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 model the bargaining process of parents over custody at the time of divorce. First we assume an institutional … custody enables more parents to divorce by mutual consent. …

, 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 …

measures of taxation, driven by men, and a positive correlation between hours worked and divorce rates, driven by women …. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …

children earlier. Their partners had lower grades, which we show to be a strong predictor of divorce, and worse labor market …

work at least partially until society is ready to remodel itself by treating men and women equally. …