The Impact of No-Fault Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Mexico

Parents' Effective Time Endowment and Divorce: Evidence from Extended School Days

“…We also show that our results are robust to using the interaction-weighted estimator developed by Sun and Abraham (2021) and the imputation estimator proposed by Borusyak et al (2021). Finally, we show that our estimates are robust to controlling for the state-level implementation of unilateral divorce laws, which allow for non-fault unilateral divorce and have been shown to increase divorce rates in Mexico (Aguirre, 2019;Hoehn-Velasco and Penglase, 2021).…”

Marriage and divorce during a pandemic: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marital formation and dissolution in Mexico

“…In addition to administrative versus judicial divorces, divorces are also categorized by cause. Divorces can be unilateral, with mutual consent, or with cause (Hoehn-Velasco & Penglase, 2021c ). At this point (post-unilateral divorce), divorces occurring in Mexico are generally mutual consent or unilateral divorces rather than divorces stating a specific cause.…”

“…At the same time as marriage has declined, divorce rates have been increasing (García-Ramos, 2021 , Hoehn-Velasco & Penglase, 2021c ). A major causal contributor to the rise in divorce rates has been the legal adoption of no-fault unilateral divorce in Mexico.…”

“…A major causal contributor to the rise in divorce rates has been the legal adoption of no-fault unilateral divorce in Mexico. 18 However, other factors may be at play, including increasing educational attainment, higher female labor force participation, and changing social norms toward divorce (Hoehn-Velasco & Penglase, 2021a , c ).…”

“…The clearest rise in the divorce rate occurs after unilateral no-fault divorce began to spread throughout Mexico. Unilateral divorce began in Mexico City in 2008 and then gradually spread to all other Mexican states by 2017 (Hoehn-Velasco & Penglase, 2021c ).

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