This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using … married households in Norway in the years 1975-1979 whose parents divorce during his or her childhood. We observe the … proximity of the child to his or her father in each year following the divorce and link proximity to children's educational and …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as financial security, are happier … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in …

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 …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …

: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less … popular. We further notice that divorce is an extremely costly process, and once allowed it may act as an independent reason …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …

marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling …, reflecting the increasing incidence of divorce and the expansion of female labor market participation. In particular, towards the … attributed to the gradual erosion of the perception of marriage as a sort of safe asset. Our results therefore suggest that the …

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 …