Replication data for: Yours, Mine, and Ours: Do Divorce Laws Affect the Intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples?
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Project Citation:
Voena, Alessandra. Replication data for: Yours, Mine, and Ours: Do Divorce Laws Affect the Intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2025. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-01-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116136V2
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Summary:
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This paper examines how divorce laws affect couples' intertemporal choices and well-being. Exploiting panel variation in US laws, I estimate the parameters of a model of household decision-making. Household survey data indicate that the introduction of unilateral divorce in states that imposed an equal division of property is associated with higher household savings and lower female employment, implying a distortion in household assets accumulation and a transfer toward wives whose share in household resources is smaller than the one of their husband. When spouses share consumption equally, separate property or prenuptial agreements can reduce distortions and increase equity. (JEL D13, D14, D91, J12, J16, K36)
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JEL Classification:
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D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
D14 Household Saving; Personal Finance
D15 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
K36 Family and Personal Law
D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
D14 Household Saving; Personal Finance
D15 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
K36 Family and Personal Law
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