contractual lens, which enables us to theorize about long-run marriage and divorce rates. … Christianity. The paper takes a historical and contemporary look at how religious traditions affect marriage, using a modified …

Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve … their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In this paper, I investigate whether the administrative divorce …

To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment … framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the … lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using exogenous variation in female labor supply and divorce rates due …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …

divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights … to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law …

norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts …We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … options. Estimates from an analysis of U.S. marriage markets differentiated by birth cohort, state, race, and skill level …

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 …

Using non-cooperative game theory the effects of mediation on the divorce rate and on the utility of the spouses are … analysed. Two kinds of mediation are considered: restricted mediation that reduces the costs of divorce and extended mediation … that additionally may prevent divorces by demonstrating the potential for Pareto-improvements within marriage to the …