of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect …

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- creased divorce rates over the short run. We then consider how the …

legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …-difference estimations with fixed effects. We confirm the relative increase in divorce among matrilocal women and, for those who stay married …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

Marriage contracts are becoming more common in the system of regulators of family relations. The need for such … marriage. The urgency of the analysis of contractual relations of spouses is caused by the expansion of contractual initiative … between husband and wife or persons seeking to settle their property rights before marriage registration because the exercise …

This paper builds and tests a model of marriage as an incomplete contract that arises from asymmetric virginity … divorce. Because men cannot or do not commit to compensating women for their lower ex post marriage market opportunities …, marriage is an incomplete contract. Men may seek to lower women’s ex ante “market wages” in order to induce entry into joint …

regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced a decrease in new marriages, and an increase in both divorce and … increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …