The impact of no-fault divorce laws is still a hotly debated topic in Economics today. Some say no-fault divorce laws have had no influence on divorce rates; others say they have had a significant impact. This paper essentially claims that no-fault divorce has indeed had significant and often...

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

Behavior in labor and marriage markets follows similar structures when it comes to commitment to long-term relationships. We argue that there is a joint social skill driving stability in both markets. Applying a grouped fixed-effect estimator on data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and...