Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce

Name: Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce
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ISBN: 9780521809337

ISBN-10: 0521809339

ISBN-13: 9780521809337

Edition: 2002

Authors: Antony W. Dnes, Robert Rowthorn

List price: $114.00

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What sort of contract is marriage? What does it offer the parties? What are the difficulties of enforcement, and the result of failed effective enforcement? This book takes an economic approach to marriage and divorce, considering the key role of 'incentives' in family law: it highlights the possible adverse consequences emanating from faulty legal design, while demonstrating that good family law should provide incentives for consistent and honest behavior. Economists, specialists in the economic analysis of law, and academic lawyers discuss recent advances in specialist work on marriage, cohabitation, and divorce. Chapters are grouped around four topics: the contractual perspectives on…

Book details

List price: $114.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.122



List of tables and figure


List of contributors



Introduction




Marriage: the long-term contract




Marital commitment and the legal regulation of divorce




Mutual consent divorce




An economic approach to adultery law




Louisiana's covenant marriage law: recapturing the meaning of marriage for the sake of the children




Cohabitation and marriage




Marriage as a signal




For better or for worse? Is bargaining in marriage and divorce efficient?




Weak men and disorderly women: divorce and the division of labor




The impact of legal reforms on marriage and divorce




European divorce laws, divorce rates, and their consequences



Index