Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Gigi Foster and Leslie Stratton

No 259, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan’s (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning is associated with a modestly higher dissolution risk and a fall in some measures of reported relationship quality, but mainly for young people in cohabiting partnerships and men in less educated partnerships. We suggest our results reflect changing norms plus market dynamics arising from the ease of access to superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners.

Keywords: Social Norms; Gender; Separation and Divorce; Cohabitation; Satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J12 J16 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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