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Does Divorce Risk Depend on Spouses' Relative Income? A Register-Based Study of First Marriages in Sweden in


  Author: Guiping Liu, Andres Vikat
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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Document Date:                  February 2004
Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce Rate
Related Categories:
Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
Family Economics > Family Income
Marriage > Relational Stability
 

This study finds strong evidence that high female income in a marriage is positively associated with greater risk of divorce in Sweden, despite egalitarian gender ideals and very high rates of female employment.  It also finds positive, but less substantial, connections between high overall family income and marital stability.

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