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'These Boots Are Made for Walking': A Reply

Margaret F. Brinig
Notre Dame Law School

Douglas W. Allen
Simon Fraser University



American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 376-379, 2002

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Erik Craft's comment on our 2000 article takes up a minor point, the impact of no-fault divorce on the gender of the spouse filing for divorce. In the original article, we related the gender of the filing to rent exploitation during marriage, rent appropriation through divorce, and particularly child custody. We tested the hypotheses we generated using a sample of more than 46,000 divorce decrees from the only four states collecting all the information we needed. The type of divorce ground was only a control variable, and not a strong one. We argue that Craft's comment misses our essential point.

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Date posted: February 29, 2008 ; Last revised: February 29, 2008

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Brinig, Margaret F. and Allen, Douglas W., 'These Boots Are Made for Walking': A Reply. American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 376-379, 2002. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=874207


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Douglas W. Allen (Contact Author)
Simon Fraser University ( email )
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 Canada
604-291-3445 (Phone)
604-291-5944 (Fax)
Margaret Friedlander Brinig (Contact Author)
Notre Dame Law School ( email )
P.O. Box 780
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0780
United States
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