more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married …

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 …

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 …

In most Western economies, the flourishing of the Welfare State has coincided with a decline of the role of the family …: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … the informal safety net in a period when social protection was provided by the family. Once the State started offering …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated … entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household …