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

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …

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

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female … money transfer received by mothers after divorce. We interpret these results as evidence against Becker-Coase bargains and …

mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such activities, however, are characterized by gender role bias through, for …, while couples in which the wife takes on typically male chores are more likely to divorce. The paper tests this hypothesis …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …