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

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 …

of their occupations' requisite knowledge are more likely to divorce. This supports the hypothesis that gains from … division of labor within a household can render a marriage more durable. On the other hand, spouses that are dissimilar in … terms of their occupations' activities are more likely to divorce. This suggests that each spouse brings an inclination …

contractual lens, which enables us to theorize about long-run marriage and divorce rates. … Christianity. The paper takes a historical and contemporary look at how religious traditions affect marriage, using a modified …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …

that the economic value of the marriage market matters for divorce decisions. …Do individuals marry and divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the economic attractiveness of a person …'s marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of consumer-producer households that is applied to rich …

-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women, but not for …