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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …

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

marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study compares the durations of marriages that began on Valentine's Day … marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch … adjusted basis, and the hazard odds of divorce for special-date marriages were 18-36% higher. Sorting on couples' observable …