In this paper, information on lottery wins from the British Household Panel Survey is exploited to investigate the effects of exogenous positive income shocks on family life. By comparing big with small lottery winners (N=2,618), it is investigated whether couples divorce more or less after...

Objective: To document gender differences in how economic wealth changes following the dissolution of marriage and cohabitation in Germany. Background: Wealth can be an important resource to deal with the adverse economic consequences of union dissolution. Marital property regimes usually ensure...