Divorce: What does learning have to do with it?

Ioana Marinescu

Labour Economics, 2016, vol. 38, issue C, 90-105

Abstract: Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand, the data is consistent with a model without any learning, but where marriage quality changes over time.

Keywords: Marriage; Divorce; Job loss; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2016.01.002

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