• DOI:10.1086/260631
Corpus ID: 53494363

An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability

@article{Becker1977AnEA,
  title={An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability},
  author={G. Becker and Elisabeth M. Landes and R. Michael},
  journal={Journal of Political Economy},
  year={1977},
  volume={85},
  pages={1141 - 1187}
}

• G. Becker, Elisabeth M. Landes, R. Michael
• Published 1977
• Economics
• Journal of Political Economy

This paper focuses on the causes of marital instability. Section I develops a theoretical analysis of marital dissolution, incorporating uncertainty about outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utility maximization and the marriage market. Section II explores implications of the theoretical analysis with cross-sectional data, primarily the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the Terman sample. The relevance of both the theoretical and empirical analyses in explaining the recent… Expand

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