different tools to incentivise husbands. They either threaten them with divorce or alter their domestic labour. Our theory … when they lack power and cannot credibly threaten divorce. In Malawi, husbands often supplement farm income with wage … predicts that wives who would be hurt badly by divorce resort to using domestic labour as a source of power. Others, having …

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland … experience a significant increase in the expected risk of divorce (such as very religious families, or single individuals). Our …

We develop a new directed-search model of fertility and marriage, and apply it to two empirical problems: the rise in … unmarried women’s share of births since 1970, and the fact that black women have lower marriage rates and higher rates of … unmarried births than white women. The premise is that weaker marriage-market prospects may be strong enough to explain higher …

changes in Canadian laws regarding the allocation of family assets upon divorce on female suicide. Using time series data, we … show that in Ontario, the passage of Canadian legislation that improved women's rights to assets upon divorce was …

This paper examines the interaction between decisions on divorce and fertility. The analysis generates two major … development leads to a simultaneous increase in divorce rates and decrease in fertility rates. …

marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …

market. The government improved the legal environment for mortgage finance by passing reforms that reduced the average time … facilitating mortgage securitization. …