Measuring the effect of changing legislation on the frequency of divorce: The Netherlands, 1830-1990.
This article discusses different procedures for measuring the effects of judicial changes on divorce rates. It presents an alternative model and applies it to a historical time series for the Netherlands. In this model, intervention variables were added to a statistical time-series (ARIMA) model. The conclusion of our analysis was that the effects of three judicial changes were only temporary.
van Poppel
F
F
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague.
de Beer
J
J
D004243:Divorce / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic / Q000266:history*; D009426:Netherlands