This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment … US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral contraceptive methods has a negative impact on divorce. These findings … the state level. Additional analysis, developed to examine whether the impact of subsequent divorce law reforms on divorce …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female … money transfer received by mothers after divorce. We interpret these results as evidence against Becker-Coase bargains and …

mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … evidence for an impact of joint custody on divorce rates. In sum, joint custody has increased the stock of married people and …

Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether … divorce. This results holds also conditioning on the overall share of female co-workers in a firm. We find that parental … divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such activities, however, are characterized by gender role bias through, for …, while couples in which the wife takes on typically male chores are more likely to divorce. The paper tests this hypothesis …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such activities, however, are characterized by gender role bias through, for …, while couples in which the wife takes on typically male chores are more likely to divorce. The paper tests this hypothesis …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …