While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce …. I shed more light on this by evaluating the Swedish divorce law reform of 1974, which i) liberalized the existing … divorce laws and ii) implemented a 6-month parental reconsideration period for divorce. I exploit quasi-experimental policy …

unilateral divorce laws on women's labor outcomes, using data from the Demographic and Health Survey program that spans decades … Jordan. The results highlight that no-fault divorce legislation was associated with a modest increase in mothers' labor … from previous research on the relationship between no-fault divorce and women's agency and empowerment in the Middle East …