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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
, 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 …
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …
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Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022
Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
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Divorce, abortion and children's sex ratio : the impact of divorce reform in China
Sun, Ang; Zhao, Yaohui - 2014
rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …
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Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio : The Impact of Divorce Reform in China
Sun, Ang - 2014
rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …
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The Retirement Prospects of Divorced Women
Butrica, Barbara A. - 2015
For decades, policymakers have discussed how to remedy the high poverty rates of older widows. Yet older divorced women are more likely to be poor than older widows, and historical divorce and remarriage trends suggest that in the future a larger share of retired women will be divorced. This...
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Divorce, domestic violence, and help seeking
Pisanelli, Elena - 2024
This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims and femicides. I find that contrary to expectations, the reform, which aimed to make divorce cheaper while requiring mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior...
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Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth : evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...
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Do Family Policies Affect Births, Maternal Employment and Marital Stability?
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2021
, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …
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Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants : differences by gender
Basu, Sukanya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 8, pp. 1-28
differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …
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