This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using … be trusted.” The main explanatory variables include the occurrence of parental divorce for the whole sample and the age … generalized trust is significantly affected by parental divorce for both men and women. This main result is very robust to …

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 …

Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after … divorce risks. Instead, the findings point to explanations which involve family relationship dynamics associated with teenage …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …