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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic … violence, and child outcomes. …
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
, division of property, child custody, and child support or maintenance payments. Reforms can have a range of social effects … beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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Is marriage as good as a contract?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2013
Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, efficiency and utility equalization are guaranteed only by a legally enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may...
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Divorced in a Flash : The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Kabatek, Jan - 2018
Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...
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Divorced in a Flash : The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Kabatek, Jan - 2019
Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870326
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Divorced in a flash : the effect of the administrative divorce option on marital stability in the Netherlands
Kabátek, Jan - 2019
Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979175
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But who will get Billy? : the effect of child custody laws on marriage
Rose, Elaina; Wong, Crystal Ho Po - 2014
Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon 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...
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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2019
support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for …This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894547
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for …This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833
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The effect of joint custody on marriage and divorce
Halla, Martin - 2011 - Forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
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