Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational structure of marriage. Based on marriage and … divorce certificate data covering 1970-1988, we provide new evidence on the evolution of the educational structure of marriage …There is evidence that the introduction of unilateral divorce legislation (UDL) starting in the late 1960s increased US …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

way by scrutinizing the practice of plural marriage through the lens of economic game theory, exploring the extreme harms … lifetime. The Article concludes that the state has a compelling economic interest in limiting marriage to two people. If … of the strongest incentives they currently have to choose formal divorce proceedings over the seemingly simpler option of …

I look at the effects of making the exit costs of cohabitation as high as divorce on new and existing partnerships. I … exploit the Family Law Amendment Act, introduced in Australia in 2008, as an exogenous shock to the cost of exiting … relationship equivalent to a divorce. I hence exploit the time discontinuity produced by the reform to identify its effects on the …