TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Marinescu, Ioana E.
        TI  - Divorce: What Does Learning Have to Do with It?
        PY  - 2015/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9075
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9075
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - divorce
KW  - job loss
KW  - learning
        ER  -