Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve … their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In this paper, I investigate whether the administrative divorce …

divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …

live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …