The law and economics of marriage and divorce / edited by Anthony Dnes and Robert Rowthorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dnes, Antony W., editor.

Rowthorn, Bob, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic relations.

Domestic relations--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Law & Economics of Marriage & Divorce

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 marriage commitment; the regulatory framework surrounding divorce; bargaining and commitment issues relating to marriage and near-marriage arrangements; and finally empirical work, which focuses on the impact of more liberal divorce laws. This important new study will be of considerable interest to lawyers, policy-makers and economists concerned with family law.

Contents:

Introduction / Antony W. Dnes and Robert Rowthorn

Marriage: the long-term contract / Lloyd R. Cohen

Marital commitment and the legal regulation of divorce / Elizabeth S. Scott

Mutual consent divorce? / Allen M. Parkman

An economic approach to adultery law / Eric Rasmusen

Louisiana's covenant marriage law: recapturing the meaning of marriage for the sake of the children / Katherine Shaw Spaht

Cohabitation and marriage / Antony W. Dnes

Marriage as a signal / Robert Rowthorn

For better or for worse? Is bargaining in marriage and divorce efficent? / Martin Zelder

Weak men and disorderly women: divorce and the division of labor / Steven L. Nock and Margaret F. Brinig

The impact of legal reforms on marriage and divorce / Douglas W. Allen

European divorce laws, divorce rates, and their consequences / Ian Smith.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12493-X

1-280-41938-5

0-511-17604-X

0-511-04206-X

0-511-15677-4

0-511-30422-6

0-511-49532-3

0-511-04483-6

OCLC:

475916810