Why do some men father children outside of marriage but not provide support? Why are some single women willing to have … children outside of marriage when they receive little or no support from unmarried fathers? Why is this behavior especially … common among blacks? To shed light on these questions, we develop and estimate a dynamic equilibrium model of marriage …

to generate income, facing a threat of divorce in the next period.  This threat of divorce encourages spouses to invest ….  Using exogenous variation in inheritance rules in Malawi as a measure of outside options, the empirical results show that …

when they lack power and cannot credibly threaten divorce. In Malawi, husbands often supplement farm income with wage … divorce to women in Malawi. … different tools to incentivise husbands. They either threaten them with divorce or alter their domestic labour. Our theory …

We study the role of education as insurance against a bad marriage in light of changing divorce laws during the 1970s …. We build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply … education in divorce than marriage market signaling benefits of education especially for women post divorce reform. (Copyright …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized … divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing …