divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights … to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after …

This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex …-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex …-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce …. I shed more light on this by evaluating the Swedish divorce law reform of 1974, which i) liberalized the existing … divorce laws and ii) implemented a 6-month parental reconsideration period for divorce. I exploit quasi-experimental policy …

unilateral divorce exposure on men's wages. Both women and men are more likely to marry and less likely to get divorced with more …This paper provides new evidence on the economic consequences of unilateral divorce laws on the future labor market … divorce state as a child on education, earnings, and marital status. Women with many years of childhood exposure to unilateral …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child …