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. …

, 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 …

additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …

The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the … amount of obligations. The potential endogeneity of child support obligations is addressed by using SOEP panel data from 1985 … child support obligations decreases the likelihood of having an additional child by about 0.39 percentage points (about 3 …

parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a … countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

to have downstream impacts in many domains such as family formation, educational attainment, labour market attachment, as …