Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized … divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing …

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

divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights … to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law …

cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data on time use - particularly housework time - as well as on the … Labour Dynamics in Australia survey are used to test this prediction. Panel analysis of reported time use data for men … marry without first cohabiting increase their reported housework time more than those who enter cohabitations (by 3.7 hours …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after …