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Divorce and remarriage in rural Malawi
The demographic study of nuptiality in African countries is not very developed and often of secondary interest in a discussion of the proximate determinants of fertility. This paper uses unusual marriage history data to examine divorce and remarriage in rural Malawi. Life table probabilities of divorce range from 40 to 65 percent and are among the highest on the continent. An investigation into...
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We develop a two-sided matching model with positive sorting. Match quality for each couple is revealed ex post and those with poor draws divorce. We show that full commitment and Nash bargaining mechanisms both yield the same non-contingent intra-household allocations. We then apply our framework to an analysis of changes in divorce settlement laws. Changes in laws governing property division i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2003.s1.6