Dynamic intrahousehold bargaining, matrimonial property law and suicide in Canada

Christopher Adam, John Hoddinott and Ethan Ligon

No 120422, CUDARE Working Papers from University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Abstract: This paper develops a dynamic model of household bargaining and uses it to motivate an empirical analysis of the impact changes in Canadian laws regarding the allocation of family assets upon divorce on female suicide. Using time series data, we show that in Ontario, the passage of Canadian legislation that improved women's rights to assets upon divorce was associated with reductions in the rate of female suicide amongst older (married) women while not affecting younger (unmarried) women. As suggested by our model, its impact was asymmetric in that male suicide rates were unaffected by this change. We also exploited a quasi-natural experiment in these data, namely that no comparable legislative change occurred in Quebec. Here, we do not observe a structural break in the data.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2011-02-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.120422

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