Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress

By Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers. 2006

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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights (2012, background): “…to obtain 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…”
Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health (2014, positive): “Recent work in economics has shown that changes in female bargaining threat points has the potential to reduce violence against women (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2006; Aizer, 2010; Hidrobo and Fernald, 2013; Bobonis et al., 2013).”
Disentangling Bargaining Power from Individual and Household Level to Institutions: Evidence on Women’s Position in Ethiopia (2010, background): “For example, more gender-aware divorce laws have shown to reduce married women‟s suicide, domestic violence, and the number of women murdered by their partners (Hoddinott and Adam, 1996; Stevenson and Wolfers, 2006).”
Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence: A Historical Review (2011, background): “As economists Stevenson and Wolfers (2006) noted, the trend of unilateral divorce and transfer of jurisdiction to civil or family court resulted in a quantitatively significant decrease in domestic assaults in the 1960’s and 1970’s.”
Renouncing Personal Names: An Empirical Examination of Surname Change and Earnings (2009, methodology): “…strategies and name change occur during the same year, the estimated δ captures the 16The strategy of using variation in staggered treatment has been applied in several previous studies but with other applications; see, for example, Bertrand and Mullainathan (1999) and Stevenson and Wolfers (2006).”
Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India (2013, neutral): “For example, giving women an option to exit marriages was found to lead to a one- third reduction of domestic violence not just by ending violent relationships but also by reducing violence in partnerships that were not dissolved (Stevenson and Wolfers 2006).”
Labor market opportunities and women's decision making power within households (2016, background): “There are other papers that have looked at the effects of divorce laws and women’s rights after divorce to analyze women’s utility within marriage (e.g. Gray 1998; Chiappori et al. 2002; Rangel 2006; Stevenson and Wolfers 2006).”