Dickert-Conlin, Stacy; Meghea, Cristian - Center for Retirement Research (CRR), Boston College - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of economic incentives on divorce and remarriage behavior. Before December 1977, the Social Security law entitled divorcees to claim auxiliary benefits on their ex-spouse’s record only if the marriage lasted at least 20 years. One of the 1977 amendments of...