We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men's layoffs; increases in separations associated with …

partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …

techniques, we show that a husband’s involuntary job loss is associated with an increase in the risk of divorce by roughly 70 … percent in the following period. The estimated relative risk of divorce is generally higher for involuntary job losses than …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …