%0 Report
        %A Kabátek, Jan
        %T Divorced in a Flash: The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12150
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12150
        %X Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In this paper, I investigate whether the administrative divorce option affected the stability of marriages in the Netherlands. Leveraging the ban of the procedure in 2009, I show that the divorce risks were 11.6% higher under the legal regime which allowed for administrative divorce. This effect is causal, and it exhibits considerable heterogeneity, being stronger among dual-earner couples, native couples, and couples living in rural regions.
        %K marital stability
%K divorce
%K administrative divorce
%K divorce costs