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 …

legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …-difference estimations with fixed effects. We confirm the relative increase in divorce among matrilocal women and, for those who stay married …