Trends in Relative Earnings and Marital Dissolution: Are Wives Who Outearn Their Husbands Still More Likely to Divorce?

Christine R. Schwartz; Pilar Gonalons-Pons

doi:10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.08

Article Information

vol. 2 no. 4 218-236

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online August 1, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. This research was carried out using the facilities of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (R24 HD047873). The collection of data used in this study was partly supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 HD06909) and the National Science Foundation (1157698). A previous version of this paper was presented at the 2015 Population Association of America in San Diego, CA. We are grateful to Martha Bailey, Tom DiPrete, Kei Nomaguchi, Christopher McKelvey, and the participants of the Russell Sage Foundation conference “Changing Roles and the Status of Women” for helpful comments and advice. Direct correspondence to: Christine R. Schwartz at cschwart@ssc.wisc.edu, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706; and Pilar Gonalons-Pons at pgonalons@soz.uni-frankfurt.de, School of Social Sciences (FB03), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Theodor W. Adorno Platz 6, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Christine R. Schwartz^a and
Pilar Gonalons-Pons^b

^aProfessor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
^bPostdoctoral fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, School of Social Sciences (FB03), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main