Business Cycles and Divorce: Evidence from Microdata
Judith K. Hellerstein, Melinda Sandler Morrill, and Ben Zou
,
1
(
118
)
Economics Letters
68-70
January
2013
Abstract
We use individual-level data to show that divorce is pro-cyclical on average, a finding robust to the inclusion of a wide range of controls. Pro-cyclical divorce is concentrated among women who married young and/or do not have a college degree.
