comparisons of the prevalence of complex family structures that emerge from divorce and separation as predicted by crude divorce …

than men, on average, upon separation, but find that the fall in living standards is much greater for those women and … health and life satisfaction decline around separation, but both return quickly to pre-split levels at rates which are little …

of types incentive compatibility plus separation implies differentiability of the informed agent's strategy. The new …

In this paper I examine the incentives of regions to unite, to separate and to provide public goods. Separation allows … of scale in the provision of public goods. When public good provision is relatively inexpensive, separation occurs since … individuals want to assert greater influence, while for intermediate costs of public good provision, separation can be explained …

-sex marriage legalization had two different effects. First, it increased the separation rate of existing same-sex registered … partnerships. Second, partnerships that were transformed into marriage had a substantially lower separation rate. We take the …

risk of separation even when we control for social and economic characteristics of the spouses; however, when we restrict …

well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with … estimates of the marital surplus are negatively correlated with separation and the difference in spouses' subjective …

well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with … estimates of the marital surplus are negatively correlated with separation and the difference in spouses' subjective …