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Empirical essays on divorce and child investment.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Empirical essays on divorce and child investment./
作者:	Nunley, John M.
面頁冊數:	212 p.
附註:	Advisers: Charles L. Baum; E. Anthon Eff; Mark Owens; Joachim Zietz.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-07A.
標題:	Economics, General. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3322481
ISBN:	9780549736844

Empirical essays on divorce and child investment.
Nunley, John M.

Empirical essays on divorce and child investment. - 212 p.

Advisers: Charles L. Baum; E. Anthon Eff; Mark Owens; Joachim Zietz.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Middle Tennessee State University, 2008.

This dissertation consists of four chapters on economic, legal, and demographic determinants of divorce rates and child investment. The first chapter, "The Effects of Household Income Volatility on Divorce," examines whether fluctuations in household income affect individual-level divorce propensities, finding that household income volatility plays a significant role in determining marriage outcomes. I find statistical evidence indicating that positive and negative household income volatility increases the probability of divorce for men and women. By contrast, positive shocks to household income lower the risk of divorce for lower-household income individuals, and increase the divorce risk for those with higher levels of household income. Negative shocks to household income raise the probability of divorce regardless of the level of household income. The second chapter, "Inflation and Other Aggregate Determinants of the Trend in U.S. Divorce Rates since the 1960s," focuses on whether increases in the inflation rate in the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the sharp rise in the divorce rate. Inflation is found to have substantial, positive, persistent effects on the divorce rate. The third chapter (co-authored with Joachim Zietz), "Explaining the Evolution of the U.S. Divorce Rate," extends research on determinants of the divorce rate by considering whether increased access to oral contraception contributed to the sharp rise in the divorce rate. We also explicitly take into account the potential impact of the Vietnam War on the divorce rate. Our econometric evidence supports the idea that increased access to oral contraception and the Vietnam War shifted the divorce rate to a new, higher level. Opposite to previous work, we find a negative relationship between the divorce rate and the rising economic independence of women, for which their participation in higher education proxies. The fourth chapter (co-authored with Alan Seals), "Child-Custody Reform and Marriage-Specific Investment in Children," considers whether the post-divorce allocation of children affects how married couples invest in their children, measured as children's private school attendance. The econometric evidence indicates that the post-divorce allocation of children has negative consequences for children living in in-tact households, with the negative effects becoming larger in states that have property-division laws that favor one spouse over another.

ISBN: 9780549736844Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

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