The Empirical Research On The Influence Of The Adjustment Of Marriage Law On Stability Of Marriage Since The Reform Of China

Marriage Law of China has been revised once and added judicial interpretation three times since 1950.Since reform,the divorce rates in our country kept going up very steadily especially after several times adjustment of Marriage Law,which is very similar to the circumstance of the implement of no-fault divorce law gradually every states in the Unite State.There have been disputes about the adjustment of Marriage Law effecting on marital stability in society.Reviewing of current national and international researches,it’s very rare that researching divorce rates and its influencing factors from economic perspective while mostly from the sociology or law perspective.There has been no empirical research on how the adjustment of Chinese Marriage Law effecting on divorce rate.This thesis builds an econometric model based on Becker’s marriage economic theory.Through analyzing 2001 to 2014 panel data of 17 cities in Anhui province,this thesis researches how the adjustment in 2004 and2011 of Marriage Law effecting on divorce rate.There are some conclusions as follows.First,the adjustment of Marriage Law in 2004 has positive impacts on divorce rate.Second,the adjustment of Marriage Law in 2011 has positive impacts on divorce rate.Third,per Capita GDP and population flow ratehave positive impacts on divorce rate.Last,urbanization rate has no significant effect on divorce rate in 2001 to 2007,but it has positive impacts on divorce rate in 2008 to 2011.It indicates that the adjustment of Marriage Law has two influence.On the one hand,it can break an unhappy marriage through prescribing the ownership of premarital property and the property during the marriage.On the other hand,it can effect marital stability in the short term.Public policy-makers need to consider that the adjustment of Marriage Law should guide both parties’ rights and obligation in marriage.