Citation

Bowles RA, Garoupa N. Int. Rev. Law Econ. 2002; 22(4): 495-510.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0144-8188(02)00116-3

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper sets up a model of household dissolution in which one party decides to leave a household that contains children. We study the effects of divorce law on this decision and, in particular, the role of legal provisions governing the post-dissolution care of the household's children. In particular, we show that there is an inevitable tension between achieving efficiency in marriage and at the same time achieving efficiency in divorce.