Spousal Conflict and Divorce
通过构建结构模型分析美国婚姻政策中维持婚姻与允许离婚的权衡，发现取消分居期可降低冲突率9.2%但提高离婚率4.0%，完善子女抚养费执行可同时降低冲突和离婚率。
The optimal balance between keeping marriages intact, despite spousal conflict, and allowing for divorce is a subject of policy debate in the United States. To explore the trade-offs, I construct a structural model with information asymmetries, which may generate inefficient outcomes. Parameters are estimated using data from the National Survey of Families and Households. I find that eliminating separation periods decreases the conflict rate by 9.2% of its baseline level and increases the divorce rate by 4.0%. Perfect child support enforcement decreases the frequency of conflict and divorce by 2.7% and 21.2%, respectively, and reduces the incidence of inefficient divorces.