no-fault divorce reforms reducing the security offered by marriage, in particular for women. …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some … states require no child support in joint custody cases, other states require fathers with joint custody to pay the same child …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes …. -- risk sharing ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …

We model the bargaining process of parents over custody at the time of divorce. First we assume an institutional … setting where only sole custody is available. In a second step we reform this institutional setting and introduce the … possibility of joint custody. We show that some parents, who would not be able to find an agreement in a sole custody regime, can …

partner violence. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment based on a series of reforms in Spain that shifted the custody … policy increased the incidence of joint custody in Spain from less than 11% of all divorces to 40% in just five years … the largest effects among couples in which the mother was more likely to seek sole custody before the policy change …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some … states require no child support in joint custody cases, other states require fathers with joint custody to pay the same child …