[Seminaire CREM] Présentation de Rozenn HOTTE, Université de Tours, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans (LEO)

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• jeudi 15 octobre à 12:15 → 13:45

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Faculté des Sciences Economiques, 7 place Hoche 35000 Rennes, Rennes

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Until Citizenship Do Us Part? Mixed Marriages and the Timing of Divorce in Response to Nationality Laws

Abstract: Citizenship policies may affect not only migrants’ legal status but also their family decisions. This paper examines whether nationality laws governing access to French citizenship through marriage and associated residence rights distort marital dissolution decisions among mixed couples. To identify this effect, we exploit two complementary sources of variation in incentives to acquire French nationality through marriage. First, non-European spouses derive greater benefits from French citizenship than European spouses, while individuals who were already naturalized before marriage have no incentive to remain married for nationality purposes. Using a triple-difference design, we compare divorce rates before and after the citizenship eligibility threshold across couples differing along these two dimensions. We find that non-European spouses who had not acquired French nationality before marriage are significantly more likely to divorce once eligibility is reached. Second, we exploit three successive reforms that changed the marriage-duration thresholds governing access to nationality and secure residence status. This quasi-natural experiment confirms our main findings: ext