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

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

marriage distortion, and both depend solely on the corresponding reduced-form elasticities. Our calculations suggest that the … total welfare loss is around 4.9 percent of yearly household income, with marriage distortion contributing 17 percent of …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …

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

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …

A marriage amongst youth belonging to the Greek-Catholic and Orthodox confessions was considered almost normal in … from the families. As mentioned before, a strong pressure against achieving a mixed marriage came from the church. Both … parishes to which the youngsters belonged had to be consulted. In order to have a religious marriage, they needed an engagement …