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Original Articles

Revisiting unit roots in divorce rates

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Pages 628-631 | Published online: 28 Oct 2014
 

Abstract

We explore the persistence of the divorce rates in OECD countries. We provide evidence to reject the null hypothesis of a unit root and propose that changes in divorce rates are nonlinear time series processes that could be modelled by stationary threshold autoregressive (TAR) or smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) models.

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Notes

1 TAR model is nonlinear, but within each regime it behaves in a linear fashion.

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