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Title: Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women's Supply Revisited

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended critically on laws governing property division, I show that these results are not robust to alternative specifications and controls. I find instead that unilateral divorce led to an increase in both married and unmarried female labor force participation, regardless of the underlying property laws.

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Authors: Stevenson, Betsey

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Publication Number: 5-10

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

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Publisher Location: Philadelphia, PA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage

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