) 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 …

) 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 …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents’ divorce have changed dramatically … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

-fault divorce reforms. Theoretical discussions generally hinge on the applicability of the Coase theorem. Empirical evidence is … mixed, but generally indicates that those reforms played only a modest or temporary role in generating trends in marriage …, divorce and fertility. There is more consistent evidence of substantial effects on intrahousehold allocation and other …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized … divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing …

This paper examines the incentives that property division laws can have for divorce and investment in marital assets …, it is demonstrated that when spouses specialize, as in a traditional family structure, the common-law rule may be … leads to a lower divorce rate than the common-law rule. …

-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a … unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …