divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …

rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting … supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates. Countervailing … effects - in line with theoretical predictions - offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most probably …