Child-Custody Reform and Marriage-Specific Investment in Children
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Keywords
child-custody laws; household bargaining; marriage-specific investment; private school attendance; property-division laws;JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law
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