Changing the Rules Midway: The Impact of Granting Alimony Rights on Existing and Newly-Formed Partnerships
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- Pierre‐Andre Chiappori & Murat Iyigun & Jeanne Lafortune & Yoram Weiss, 2017. "Changing the Rules Midway: The Impact of Granting Alimony Rights on Existing and Newly Formed Partnerships," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 127(604), pages 1874-1905, September.
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Keywords
Alimony; Cohabitation; Bargaining; Policy neutrality; Labor supply;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2012-07-14 (Demographic Economics)
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