Premium
HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE PROBABILITY OF DIVORCE
Author(s) -
Zax Ori
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bulletin of economic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8586
pISSN - 0307-3378
DOI - 10.1111/boer.12055
Subject(s) - human capital , economics , variety (cybernetics) , poverty , labour economics , demographic economics , capital (architecture) , economic growth , geography , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science
Concern about the high poverty rates experienced by children in female‐headed households has led to policies aimed at increasing these households' income. In this paper we present a model that analyses decisions made before and during marriage to invest in the human capital of parents and children. These decisions result from a variety of anticipated post‐divorce monetary transfers between spouses.