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Do Spouses Negotiate in the Shadow of the Law? Evidence from Unilateral Divorce, Suicides, and Homicides in Mexico

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lauren Hoehn-Velasdo, Bryn Mawr College; Adan Silverio-Murillo, Tecnologico de Monterrey

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Hoehn-Velasdo, Lauren , and Silverio-Murillo, Adan. Do Spouses Negotiate in the Shadow of the Law? Evidence from Unilateral Divorce, Suicides, and Homicides in Mexico. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E115962V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary In this paper, we analyze whether state-level no-fault divorce reforms in Mexico led to declines in the homicide and suicide rates. Using an event-study design, we find that the unilateral reform had no impact on state-level suicide rates or homicide rates. This finding contrasts with results from high-income countries (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2006; Brassiolo, 2016). To reconcile the differences from the existing literature, we show that intimate partner violence did not decline following the reform, which corroborates related studies (Silverio-Murillo, 2019; Garcıa-Ramos, 2019). The combined results suggest that in Mexico, women are less able to escape abusive marriages through a divorce.



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