administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage …We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the …

administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage …We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the …

: 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 studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified 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 …

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 …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

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 …