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dc.contributor.authorBargain, Olivieren
dc.contributor.authorGonzález, Libertaden
dc.contributor.authorKeane, Claireen
dc.contributor.authorÖzcan, Berkayen
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-28-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-23T09:33:32Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-23T09:33:32Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/36848-
dc.description.abstractIf participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or spatial variation in divorce legislation (e.g., across US states), leading to mixed results. In this paper, we suggest testing this hypothesis by exploiting a more radical policy change, i.e., the legalization of divorce. In Ireland, the right to divorce was introduced in 1996, followed by an acceleration of marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference-in-difference approach, using families for whom the dissolution risk is small as a control group. Our results suggest that the legalization of divorce contributed to a significant increase in female labor supply, mostly at the extensive margin. Results are not driven by selection and are robust to several specification checks, including the introduction of household fixed effects and an improved match between control and treatment groups using propensity score reweighting.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4959en
dc.subject.jelJ12en
dc.subject.jelJ22en
dc.subject.jelD10en
dc.subject.jelD13en
dc.subject.jelK36en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordDivorce lawen
dc.subject.keywordnatural experimenten
dc.subject.keywordlabor supplyen
dc.subject.keywordfixed effectsen
dc.subject.keywordpropensity scoreen
dc.subject.stwEherechten
dc.subject.stwReformen
dc.subject.stwScheidungen
dc.subject.stwFrauenerwerbstätigkeiten
dc.subject.stwArbeitsangeboten
dc.subject.stwIrlanden
dc.titleFemale labor supply and divorce: New evidence from Ireland-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn626947421en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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