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The Discourse of 'Contract' and the Law of Marriage

Joo, Thomas Wuil - 2008

Marriage is often compared to a "contract." The contract analogy appears to be an argument about the law of marriage based on a settled concept called "contract." But it is in fact an assertion of a contested view of "contract": that legitimate obligation must derive from consent. This focus on...

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Divorce in Mexico : The Impact of No-Fault Unilateral Divorce Laws

Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Penglase, Jacob - 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, Mexican states implemented no-fault unilateral divorce. Using an event-study design, we exploit state-level variation in the timing of the reforms to investigate the consequences of more liberalized divorce laws. Our results suggest that no-fault divorce dramatically in-...

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Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment

Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022

Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...

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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment

Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...

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Tradeoffs in Formulating a Consistent National Policy on Adoption

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach; Pollack, Daniel - 2006

Just as the courts must consider the tradeoff between the best interest of the child and parental rights in involuntary … termination of parental rights, policy on international adoption must consider the tradeoffs between the best interest of the … to devote resources today to the oversight of international adoption in accord with child protections under the Hague …

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Female Labor Supply and Divorce : New Evidence from Ireland

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or...

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Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing

Halla, Martin; Scharler, Johann - 2021

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...

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The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior

Gonzalez, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - 2021

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...

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Bargaining at divorce : the allocation of custody

Halla, Martin; Hölzl, Christine - 2007

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The effect of joint custody on marriage and divorce

Halla, Martin - 2009

additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …

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