%0 Report
        %A Marinescu, Ioana E.
        %T Divorce: What Does Learning Have to Do with It?
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9075
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9075
        %X Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand, the data is consistent with a model without any learning, but where marriage quality changes over time.
        %K divorce
%K job loss
%K learning