legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …-difference estimations with fixed effects. We confirm the relative increase in divorce among matrilocal women and, for those who stay married …

Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …

Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after … divorce risks. Instead, the findings point to explanations which involve family relationship dynamics associated with teenage …

estimate the effect of a divorce on the hazard of leaving The Netherlands using the "timing-of-events" model. The model allows … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided … into three groups based on the Human Development Index (HDI) of their country of birth. We find that divorce has a large …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes …

Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … evidence for an impact of joint custody on divorce rates. In sum, joint custody has increased the stock of married people and …

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the … risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to … financial literacy, contributing to uncover the mechanisms through which the risk of divorce may affect savings. Our results are …

Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve … their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In this paper, I investigate whether the administrative divorce …

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in …