The approach taken to child support in New Zealand has shaped perceptions and outcomes. Despite ongoing dissatisfaction, substantial changes to the legislation have yet to be made. The current Government is considering changes which address some of the major issues: costs of children; incomes of...

This paper analyzes the relationship between same-sex marriage bans and sexually transmitted infections using state-level data from 1981 to 2008. We hypothesize that same-sex marriage bans may directly affect homosexual behavior; may affect or mirror social attitudes toward gays, which in turn...

For the last years many countries of the world were experiencing the global financial and economic crisis and the most economies had negative impact from its consequences. Uzbekistan, while undertaking measures for prevention, overcoming and neutralizing of the consequences of this crisis, at...

Government entities around the country (if not the world) expend large dollar amounts related to domestic violence. This study attempted to determine the cost of false or unnecessary domestic violence cases to West Virginia taxpayers. The costs are incurred by West Virginia state, county, and...

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the...

This paper investigates empirically whether financial incentives, and in particular governmental child subsidies, affect fertility. We use a comprehensive, nonpublic, individual-level panel dataset that includes fertility histories and detailed individual controls for all married Israeli women...

We present a model where divorcing spouses can choose to hire lawyers in their divorce process. Spouses encounter incentives as in the classical prisoners' dilemma: Despite the zero sum nature of the game and the lawyers' fees, each spouse has an incentive to hire a lawyer. We propose a simple...

This paper studies the impact of the introduction of joint custody in Italy (Law 54/2006) on judiciary outcomes. As to the formal (legal) assignment of joint custody, the reform envisaged very little judge discretion. With reference to the substance of the custody (the amount of time each parent...

The provision of care for elderly and disabled people is an issue of enormous public importance, particularly in the context of an aging population. There is currently much discussion, in the light of the UK Government's attempts to implement an approximation of the Dilnot Commission's...