Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing
33 Pages Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Abstract
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the individual level, but also have implications for the allocation of risk at the more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes.
Keywords: risk sharing, marriage, divorce, family law
JEL Classification: J12, E21, K36, G21
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