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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 … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468143
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in … the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed … into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages are similar in terms of rights and obligations we can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864859
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 … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043701
marriage - in a context in which the laws are not strictly enforced. We do so using a randomised video-based information … intervention that aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher … punishments for facilitating early marriage. Follow-up surveys documented an increase in early marriage among treated households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257492
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in … the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Samesex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed … into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages are similar in terms of rights and obligations we can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057148
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in … the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed … into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages are similar in terms of rights and obligations we can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058498
The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the … age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined … and marriage behaviour in a setting with weak law enforcement. We do this by administering a randomised video …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208297
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 … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074816
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 data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161333
their children. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes and behaviour towards child marriage - in a … context in which the laws are not strictly enforced. We do so by developing a simple theoretical model of marriage age choice … aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher punishments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084098