Household dissolution, child care and divorce law
This paper sets up a model of household dissolution in which one party decides to leave a household that contains children. We study the effects of divorce law on this decision and, in particular, the role of legal provisions governing the post-dissolution care of the household’s children. In partic...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | International review of law and economics 2002-12, Vol.22 (4), p.495-510 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper sets up a model of household dissolution in which one party decides to leave a household that contains children. We study the effects of divorce law on this decision and, in particular, the role of legal provisions governing the post-dissolution care of the household’s children. In particular, we show that there is an inevitable tension between achieving efficiency in marriage and at the same time achieving efficiency in divorce. |
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| ISSN: | 0144-8188 1873-6394 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0144-8188(02)00116-3 |