The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bruze, Gustaf; Svarer, Michael; Weiss, Yoram
• 署名单位: Aarhus University; Tel Aviv University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/677393
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 123-170
• 关键词: cohabitation; MODEL

摘要

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using panel data on two cohorts of Danish men and women. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce and the surplus shares of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. We find that the educations of husbands and wives are complements. Education raises the share of the marital surplus for men but not for women. As men and women get older, husbands receive a larger share of the marital surplus. The estimated costs of divorce are high both early and late in marriage.