No-Fault Divorce Laws and the Labor Supply of Women with and without Children

We use a difference-in-difference-in-difference estimator to compare changes in labor force participation, weeks, and hours of work associated with no-fault divorce laws, allowing for differential responses for married women with and without children. Although other research has found that the labor...

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Published in:The Journal of human resources 2007, Vol.XLII (1), p.247-274
Main Authors: Genadek, Katie R, Stock, Wendy A, Stoddard, Christiana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Comparative Analysis
Computation
Divorce
Divorce law
Employed Parents
Employed Women
Family studies
Females
Labor Force
Labor Force Nonparticipants
Labor law
Labor Supply
Labour market participation
Labour supply
Law
Law of supply
Laws
Marital Status
Married women
Mothers
No fault divorces
Participation
Prenuptial agreements
Rule of law
Spouses
State laws
Studies
Workforce
Working Hours
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Summary:We use a difference-in-difference-in-difference estimator to compare changes in labor force participation, weeks, and hours of work associated with no-fault divorce laws, allowing for differential responses for married women with and without children. Although other research has found that the labor supply of women in general does not respond to no-fault divorce laws, we find that no-fault divorce laws are associated with increases in the labor supply of married mothers relative to married nonmothers, even after controlling for changes in female labor supply in states without no-fault divorce laws and for property division rules associated with the laws.
ISSN:0022-166X
1548-8004
DOI:10.3368/jhr.XLII.1.247