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The 1900 Revision of German Divorce Laws

Analysis of Data as a Time-Series Quasi-Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Gene V Glass ,
George C. Tiao  and
Thomas O. Maguire
Gene V Glass
Affiliation:
University of Colorado
George C. Tiao
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
Thomas O. Maguire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta-Edmonton
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Extract

In 1959, Wolf, Lüke, and Hax published Scheidung und Scheidungsrecht (Divorce and Divorce Law), dealing with the effects of revision of German divorce laws in 1900 on the rates of divorce and petition for divorce. This paper is a reanalysis of Wolf, Lüke, and Hax's data with newly developed inferential statistical models, and a reappraisal in light of appropriate statistical analyses of then-conclusions and those of Max Rheinstein (1960) in his review of their work.

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , May 1971 , pp. 539 - 562
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 The Law and Society Association.

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