marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the …. -- marriage ; polygyny ; monogamy ; divorce ; human capital ; political economy …

risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … marriage specific capital. -- divorce ; fertility ; bargaining ; intrahousehold allocations ; Austria … analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female …

data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit …

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

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 …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit …

We build a realistically calibrated life-cycle model of housing decisions under divorce risk. As observed in the data …, our model predicts the recent increase in divorce rates leads to reduced homeownership rates. The event of a divorce … negatively affects homeownership, and this effect is long-lasting. The risk of a divorce triggers a precautionary savings motive …

and procedures for dissolutions of marriage. The most dramatic changes in divorce law have come from the advent of no …-fault divorce, the decline in spousal maintenance awards, and the abolition of inter-spousal tort immunity. Ongoing changes include … system. These transformations have been based in part on changes in how society views divorce and, on the way the legal …