TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker,Gary S.
AU  - Landes,Elisabeth M.
AU  - Michael,Robert T.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Economics of Marital Instability
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1976///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - October 1976; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper focuses on the causes of divorce. Section I developsa theoretical analysis of marital dissolution incorporating uncertaintyabout the outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utilitymaximization and the marriage market. Section II explores the implica-tions of the theoretical analysis with cross-sectional data,primarilythe 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the Terman sample. Therelevance of both the theoretical and empirical analyses in explainingthe recent acceleration in the U.S. divorce rate is discussed
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w0153
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w0153
ER  -