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Divorce Rate and Economic Factors in Iran

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Maysam Musai, Seyede Marzieh Fatemi Abhari, Saeed Garshasebi Fakhr, Farnaz Karbalai Hassan, Fatemeh Nikbin Sedaghati, Somayeh Miri

Pages 540-544 Received: 21 Jan, 2014 Revised: 19 Feb, 2014 Published Online: 14 Mar, 2014

http://dx.doi.org/10.46886/IJARBSS/v4-i3/740
This paper will study the relationship between divorce and Iran’s economic-social variables. The results showed that there is a significance relation between income distribution and divorce such that the worse income distribution quality, the more divorces will occur. Among other results of these paper, the direct relationship between divorce rate and monthly expenditures of Iranian households and it’s reverse relationship with income per capita and illiteracy rate.
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