Family law is full of private tragedy. Case after case pits one family member against another in a zero-sum struggle for resources. Spouses battle over limited assets; parents clash over child support; and children fight each other for resources when parental income is stretched across multiple...

This Essay examines a movement across the world to allow fundamentalist religious norms, rather than state law, to govern family matters associated with divorce and inheritance. Such religious norms often depart significantly from the state’s protections for vulnerable dependents at two...

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...

Die Hauptziele der Privatisierung in der ungarischen Lebensmittelindustrie waren deren Restrukturierung und die Erhöhung ihrer Wettbewerbskraft sowie das Erreichen von staatlichen Gewinnen zur Finanzierung der Staatsverschuldung. Ausländisches Kapital strömt vor allem in die großen...