divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …

, sophisticated couples – but not naive ones – may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted … results to interpret several stylized facts about marriage and divorce that cannot be straightforwardly reconciled with …

Indiivduals who find themselves in the midst of marital struggles may need a divorce lawyer, or they may be looking for … alternatives to divorce. Often such family law clients wish to preserve their family for the sake of their children, or to preserve …

We exploit China's heating policy to identify the effects of the age of marriage on divorce. From the mid-1950s, the … that, among Americans, divorce declines with the age of marriage up to the late 20s. We find some evidence suggesting that … associated with the age of marriage being 7 months lower in the north than the south. By contrast, there is no north …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

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. …

are more likely to be poor than older widows, and historical divorce and remarriage trends suggest that in the future a …