beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized … divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce …. I shed more light on this by evaluating the Swedish divorce law reform of 1974, which i) liberalized the existing … divorce laws and ii) implemented a 6-month parental reconsideration period for divorce. I exploit quasi-experimental policy …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage. We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … divorce while providing consumption insurance to their partner. This, in turn, increases the value of marriage for those able …Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose …

of their occupations' requisite knowledge are more likely to divorce. This supports the hypothesis that gains from … division of labor within a household can render a marriage more durable. On the other hand, spouses that are dissimilar in … terms of their occupations' activities are more likely to divorce. This suggests that each spouse brings an inclination …

the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage.We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … divorce while providing consumption insurance to their partner. This, in turn, increases the value of marriage for those able …Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in …

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We … these factors are particularly important in poor countries, especially in a rural setting. We then focus on marriage, which … polygyny, we introduce bargaining and strategic bequest and discuss their implication for the equilibrium of the marriage …