marriage which exactly offsets their higher prospective divorce settlement. When remarriage is possible, more complex effects … could occur: the reform typically alters divorce probabilities and it may affect the total surplus generated by marriage …We develop a two-sided matching model with positive sorting, divorce and remarriage. Match quality for each couple is …

, utility must be transferable both within marriage and upon divorce, and the marginal rate of substitution between public and … that if divorce alters the way some goods are consumed (either because some goods that are public in marriage become …"We reconsider the well known Becker-Coase (BC) argument, according to which changes in divorce laws should not affect …