Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long‐Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce
利用美国40年人口普查数据，研究发现童年时期生活在单方离婚法环境下的成年人，教育程度和家庭收入更低，更早结婚但更易分居，自杀风险更高。
I assess the long-run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce environment, which increases the ease of divorce by not requiring the explicit consent of both partners. Using 40 years of census data to exploit the variation across states and over time in changes in divorce regulation, I confirm that unilateral divorce regulations do significantly increase the incidence of divorce. Adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are less well educated, have lower family incomes, marry earlier but separate more often, and have higher odds of adult suicide.