regarding a positive or negative effect from education on marital decisions. In this paper the impact of education on marriage … dissolution is analysed exploiting a change in the length of compulsory education in Mexico in 1993 as an instrument for education … no effect on the probability of marriage dissolution. This finding demonstrates that the relationship between education …

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

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … full-time elementary schools across different municipalities in Mexico. Using administrative data on divorces, we find that …