Allen, Douglas W.; Pendakur, Krishna; Suen, Wing - In: Economic Inquiry 44 (2006) 3, pp. 547-558
We examine how no-fault divorce law affects the age at first marriage, when everyone has a different value of marriage. The heterogeneity of individual values implies an unambiguous negative effect on the variance of marriage age. We test this hypothesis with marriage records from 1970 to 1995....