The benefits of no-fault divorce cites a Washington Post article on Stevenson and Wolfers’ research:
After states adopted no-fault divorce laws, suicides among women dropped by 20 percent, the rate of domestic abuse fell by a third, and the number of women murdered by their partners dropped by about 10 percent, Stevenson and Wolfers found.
Tyler Cowen’s take? “I’m all for family values, but let’s not forget that some families should split up.”