in house prices at the regional level impact on the likelihood of divorce. We use information from 18 waves (1991 … the theoretical literature suggesting a positive shock will reduce the benefits of the current marriage and increase the … tenure show a small positive significant increase in the likelihood of divorce for couples in mortgaged property and private …

, sophisticated couples - but not naive ones - may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted … results to interpret several stylized facts about marriage and divorce that cannot be straightforwardly reconciled with …

possible intellectual influences on Becker's theory of marriage, compares Becker's research on marriage with that of some …This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice … models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as …

theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …

marriage as well as for a precautionary attitude towards risk. - Consumption Insurance ; Marriage …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes …. -- risk sharing ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married …

live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …

In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female …-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children … economic consequence of divorce on the welfare of fathers, mothers and children under alternative behavioral assumptions …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect …