Alimony

Cécile Bourreau-Dubois () and Myriam Doriat-Duban ()
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Myriam Doriat-Duban: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Alimony or spousal support is a transfer of income between spouses intended mainly to reduce inequality in living standards following a divorce. Economic analysis provides two justifications for maintaining it in societies where women are now less financially dependent on their husbands and fault is no longer a decisive factor in divorce: the efficiency of marriage and the prevention of opportunism. It also provides some theoretical justifications for the methods used to calculate it.

Keywords: Alimony; Spouse; Inequality; Marriage; Spousal support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2018, ⟨10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_680-1⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_680-1

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