are more likely to be poor than older widows, and historical divorce and remarriage trends suggest that in the future a … Near Term (version 6) to project the retirement resources and well-being of divorced women. We find that Social Security … benefits and retirement incomes are projected to increase for divorced women and that their poverty rates are projected to …

and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the … for France. Exploiting retirement laws for identification purposes, and taking a regression discontinuity approach, we … find that older women's retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty …

models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage … status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage …

models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage … status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage …

Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …

increase and fall after divorce. Divorce, if it occurs, will be instigated by the parent who cares most about the child, the … parent that cares least about the child will never opt for divorce. This can explain the apparent contradiction that mothers … are more likely than fathers to initiate divorce beyond infant age even though the traditional household literature …

Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the … risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to … financial literacy, contributing to uncover the mechanisms through which the risk of divorce may affect savings. Our results are …

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the … risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to … financial literacy, contributing to uncover the mechanisms through which the risk of divorce may affect savings. Our results are …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child …