Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights (2012, background): “…divorce without the consent of the other, was associated with a significant reduction in rates of domestic violence and female suicide (Stevenson and Wolfers 2006), and with changes in the labor supply of women (although evidence on labor supply is not conclusive, see Gray 1998 and Stevenson 2008).”
On Norms and Agency: Conversations about Gender Equality with Women and Men in 20 Countries (2013, unknown): “42 Changes in bargaining power within the household have been widely documented by Lundberg and Pollack (1993), stevenson (2008), and Aizer (2010), among others.”
Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life‐Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation (2014, unknown): “…risk and women’s work by exploiting time differences in the introduction of unilateral divorce laws across US states (Peters, 1986; Gray, 1998; Stevenson, 2008), the dynamic quantitative literature has (with a few recent notable exceptions discussed in the next Section) mostly ignored this…”