Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35395 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3744
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the individual level, but also have implications for the allocation of risk at the more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes.
Subjects: 
Risk sharing
marriage
divorce
family law
JEL: 
J12
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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