shock significantly increased the probability of divorce/separation among senior women by 19%. Our results show that …

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a … unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life …-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …

. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital … affected positively by per capita income and negatively by the presence of Catholicism and the availability of divorce, while …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

school than children living with their two parents. This result has been used to argue that softening divorce legislation … parents. Next, I exploit the large increase in separation rates following the 1975 divorce law reform (as well as cross …-regional variations in divorce rates) to show that the performance gap of single-parent children is a declining function of the separation …

changes there in the past fifteen years which have affected marriage, fertility, divorce and household formation. During the … divorce. Reform of the law concerning divorce accelerated the upward trend in divorce, and monetary and fiscal policies … timing of childbearing and the likelihood of divorce. Housing policies have continued to influence the timing of marriage and …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …