Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …

divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights … 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 …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past …

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past …

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

Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve … their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In this paper, I investigate whether the administrative divorce …