Replication data for: Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Justin Wolfers
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| Name | File Type | Size | Last Modified |
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| jwolfers | 12/07/2019 12:23:PM |
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Summary:
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Applying the Coase Theorem to marital bargaining suggests that shifting from consent to unilateral divorce laws will not affect divorce rates. I show that existing evidence suggesting large effects of divorce laws on divorce rates reflect a failure to explicitly model the dynamic response of divorce rates to a shock to the legal regime. When accounting for these dynamics, I find that unilateral divorce spiked following the adoption of unilateral divorce laws, but that this rise largely reversed itself within a decade. Overall, these changes in family law explain very little of the rise in divorce over the past half-century. (JEL C78, J12)
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JEL Classification:
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J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
K36 Family and Personal Law
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
K36 Family and Personal Law
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