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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …

marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study compares the durations of marriages that began on Valentine's Day … marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch … adjusted basis, and the hazard odds of divorce for special-date marriages were 18-36% higher. Sorting on couples' observable …