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 …

risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While …

risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria differing not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While …

wherin a state s representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk … undiversifiable risk becomes larger, and when a state s initial income and growth rate is lower. A test of the model s predictions …, using cross-sectional data for the 50 U.S. states, suggests that there is broad support for a risk sharing motive for …

labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …

In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and … 80 percent of them were married or cohabiting. Early marriage/cohabitation is indeed intrinsically related to early … for a prolonged period have a higher risk of early childbearing. Similarly, girls whose self-efficacy and educational …