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Martin Halla

University of Linz, Austria, and IZA, Germany

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Author

Current position

Professor of Economics, University of Linz, Austria

Research interest

Applied microeconometrics, population economics, labor economics, and health economics

Website

https://sites.google.com/site/mhalla1980/

Past positions

Professor of Economics, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Linz, 2007

Selected publications

  • “The effect of joint custody on family outcomes.” Journal of the European Economic Association 11:2 (2013): 278–315.

  • “Assortative mating and divorce: Evidence from Austrian register data.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 176:4 (2013): 907–929 (with W. Frimmel and R. Winter-Ebmer).

  • “Can pro-marriage policies work? An analysis of marginal marriages.” Demography 51:4 (2014): 1357–1359 (with W. Frimmel and R. Winter-Ebmer).

article(s)

  • Do joint custody laws improve family well-being?

    Joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well

    Martin Halla, May 2015
    Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents’ divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent—usually the mother—was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and responsibilities through joint custody arrangements. While joint custody laws have improved the situation of divorced fathers, recent empirical research has documented intended and unintended consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic violence, and child outcomes.
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