Parents’ Marital Distress, Divorce, and Remarriage: Links With Daughters’ Early Family Formation Transitions

An Assignment Model with Divorce and Remarriage

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...

Divorce , Remarriage and Child Support ∗

Modern marriage markets display increasing turnover, with less marriage but more divorce and remarriage. As a consequence, a large number of children live in single parent and step parent households. There is substantial evidence that children of divorced parents do not perform as well as comparable children in intact families. However, there is also some evidence that this gap declines with th...

Parting: The Aftermath of Separation and Divorce / Recycling the Family: Remarriage after Divorce

Divorce, Remarriage and the Housing Market

Subjects that the research investigated included the housing tenure of divorcing couples; the housing circumstances of the ex-spouses, including the number that lived as independent households and the effect on the number of separate households. Also studied were how many divorcees remained in owneroccupation and was there evidence about whether this involved moves to poorer and presumably chea...

Remarriage after divorce and depression risk.

As marriage is associated with lower depression rates compared with being single in men, we aimed to examine if remarriage compared with remaining divorced is also associated with a reduced depression risk. Swedish register data were used to define a cohort of men who were born between 1952 and 1956 and underwent a compulsory military conscription assessment in adolescence. This study populatio...