Dissolving the relationship between divorce laws and divorce rates

Ellman, Ira Mark; Lohr, Sharon L.

doi:10.1016/s0144-8188(98)00014-3

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“…This means that unilateral divorce raised the divorce rate by more than 0.8 divorces per thousand people, a substantial impact relative to the average divorce rate of 1.84 over the period. Therefore, our result for England and Wales supports the findings of Allen (1992), Buckley (1998), andFriedberg (1998), and, to a limited extent, Ellman and Lohr (1998). These American studies also find that relaxing the divorce law results in significant positive impacts on the level of divorce.…”

Section: Short-run Dynamic Error-correction Models and Causality supporting

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Marriage, divorce, and legal change: new evidence from England and Wales

Binner

Dnes

2001

Economic Inquiry

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In this article, we explain the evolution of divorce rates in England and Wales over the post-war period. Following the approach of the predominantly North American literature in this area, we focus on the liberalization of divorce law and socioeconomic factors as determinants of the divorce rate. In line with the development of the literature, we find that the introduction of liberalized, no-fault divorce law had a significant effect on the divorce rate in England and Wales. The finding that the law affects the divorce rate is consistent with the view that marriage is characterized by indivisibilities that inhibit Coasian bargaining. (JEL C32, J12, K19)

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Section: Short-run Dynamic Error-correction Models and Causality supporting

confidence: 89%

Marriage, divorce, and legal change: new evidence from England and Wales

Binner

Dnes

2001

Economic Inquiry

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“…2 In the area of sociology (see Nakonezny et al, 1995;and Rodgers et al, 1999) and law and economics literature (see Brinig andBuckley, 1998 andEllman andLohr, 1998), mixed results have also been found.…”

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Breaks in the breaks: An analysis of divorce rates in Europe

González‐Val

Marcén

2012

International Review of Law and Economics

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“…Our data are taken from Ellman and Lohr (1998), Mechoulan (2006), and tables available at http://www .law.cornell.edu/topics/Table_Divorce.htm.…”

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Divorce as risky behavior

Light

Ahn

2010

Demography

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Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky, and that divorce is even riskier. The model predicts that conditional on the expected gains to marriage and divorce, the probability of divorce increases with relative risk tolerance because risk averse individuals require compensation for the additional risk that is inherent in divorce. To implement the model empirically, we use data for first-married women and men from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate a probit model of divorce in which a measure of risk tolerance is among the covariates. The estimates reveal that a 1-point increase in risk tolerance raises the predicted probability of divorce by 4.3% for a representative man and by 11.4% for a representative woman. These findings are consistent with the notion that divorce entails a greater income gamble for women than for men.

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Dissolving the relationship between divorce laws and divorce rates

Cited by 53 publications

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Marriage, divorce, and legal change: new evidence from England and Wales

Marriage, divorce, and legal change: new evidence from England and Wales

Breaks in the breaks: An analysis of divorce rates in Europe

Divorce as risky behavior

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