of remarriage. We measure wellbeing using GHQ and life-satisfaction scores. -- divorce ; happiness ; GHQ ; life …Divorce is a leap in the dark. This paper investigates whether people who split up actually become happier. Using the … and after divorce. Our results show that divorcing couples reap psychological gains from the dissolution of their …

Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing … of divorce law reform across states provides a useful quasi-experiment with which to examine the effects of this change … change in divorce law. Suicide rates are used as a quantifiable measure of well-being, albeit one that focuses on the extreme …

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 …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational structure of marriage. Based on marriage and … divorce certificate data covering 1970-1988, we provide new evidence on the evolution of the educational structure of marriage …There is evidence that the introduction of unilateral divorce legislation (UDL) starting in the late 1960s increased US …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

changes in divorce costs on marital dissolution. Each individual who has a nontransferable expected utility about the quality … of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals … whether to stay married or to unilaterally divorce. We show that, for any society, there exist matching environments where the …

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 …

affects divorce decisions. I find evidence that the ten-year rule results in a small increase in divorces for the general … population; however, the effects vary greatly by age. Divorce decisions change very little for people under the age of 35. For … increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …