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Child Custody Laws and Household Outcomes
(Springer Nature, 2022-09-06) Fernández Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Zimmermann, Klaus; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
Shared parenting or joint physical custody is an increasingly common phenomenon in many Western countries. While one strand of the economics literature on this topic has taken a theoretical approach, examining the efficiency and distributional effects of joint custody within marriage, most of the literature has focused on identifying the effects of shared parenting empirically. However, an empirical analysis of shared parenting and its consequences is difficult for multiple reasons, including selection in joint custody and data ambiguity in identifying “friendly” joint custody legal regimes. This Handbook chapter provides an overview of the legal treatment of shared parenting internationally and within the USA and discuss the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of shared parenting on family outcomes. The chapter conclude with directions for future research.