Tilak Sanyal, Uttiya Paul

Economics of Divorce

Some Institutional Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The incidence of divorce is exhibiting a rising trend in every country. This phenomenon poses serious multi-dimensional challenges to two types of institutions-legal and socio-cultural. In the event of divorce, child is considered as the worst victim. So it becomes a responsibility of the legal institution to allocate child custody and arrange for a child support payment from the non-custodian parent with the objective of maintaining child's welfare. Unfortunately, several experiments in this regard have failed to achieve the objective either in part or in full. This book has a chapter to show theoretically that a combinatorial mechanism implemented by the court and the government can allocate child custody efficiently and eliminates the need for any child support system. The book also devotes a chapter to provide some direction to the age old anti-feminist debate whether women emancipation is at the root of shrinking family size manifested through disintegration of joint families to nuclear families and further culminating to single parenthood through divorce. We are optimistic that the results derived here have implications for policymakers, lawmakers and empirical researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9786202077200
• ISBN-10: 6202077204
• Artikelnr.: 50391417

Autorenporträt

Tilak Sanyal is an Assistant Professor of Economics in Shibpur Dinobundhoo College, Howrah, India. His broad areas of interest are public economics, game theory, mechanism design theory and auction theory.Uttiya Paul is working as a professional data consultant in a MNC. His areas of research interest are mathematical economics & game theory.