@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8611,
            	author={Rose, Elaina and Wong, Crystal (Ho Po)},
            	title={But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage},
            	year={2014},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={8611},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8611},
	abstract={Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the introduction of gender-neutral laws reduced the hazard into marriage by at least 7.9 percent. There is no evidence that moving from marriage non-neutrality to marriage neutrality affected marriage under the gender-neutral custody regime.},
	keywords={marriage;custody;family law},
            }