Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results
By Justin Wolfers. 2003
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Subfields: Accounting, Demography, Gender Studies
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- Linear Regression for Panel With Unknown Number of Factors as Interactive Fixed Effects (2015, neutral): “The model is a static panel model with one regressor (K = 1), 39The magnitude of estimates is smaller than those estimated by Wolfers (2006), i.e. controlling for unobserved factors reduced the effect size, as already pointed out by Kim and Oka (2014). two factors (R0 = 2), and the following data…”
- Two-Way Fixed Effects and Differences-in-Differences with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: A Survey (2021, positive): “Note: This table shows the estimated effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on the divorce rate, from 0 to 7 years after adoption, using the data in Wolfers (2006a). The first set of estimates is based on the regression in Column (2) of Table 2 of Wolfers (2006a).”
- The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe (2009, neutral): “Wolfers (2006) adopted an alternative approach that traced out the full adjustment path, and his results indicated that Friedberg’s approach leads to misleading conclusions on the impact of divorce legislation on the divorce rate.”
- Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply (2008, neutral): “Stevenson (2007) examines the impact of unilateral divorce on the behavior of newlyweds within marriage, while Stevenson and Wolfers (2006) find that unilateral divorce reduces domestic violence and suicide.”
- Feasible generalized least squares for panel data with cross-sectional and serial correlations (2019, neutral): “and year t, αi a state fixed effect, µt a time fixed effects, and δit a linear time trend with unknown coefficient δi. Xit is a binary regressor which denotes the treatment effect 2k years after the reform. Wolfers (2006) suggested that “the divorce rate rose sharply following the adoption of unilateral di”
- The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry (2017, neutral): “A concern with the inclusion of city-specific time-trends is that they can be confounded with hotels’ response to Airbnb (Wolfers, 2006).”
- The Economics of the Marriage Contract: Theories and Evidence (2008, neutral): “Whether this change leads the divorce rate under unilateral divorce laws to be higher or lower than it is under mutual-consent laws depends on the underlying reason why individuals choose to marry.”