Peter Foreshaw Brookes
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Husband, Father, Director @centre4fe , Research Associate @famstudies . Substack: https://t.co/GiVdv0CRkg. Views my own
A study analyzing 544,911 couples across 29 high-income countries confirmed that when women outearn their husbands, they are 36% more likely to leave them. Among childless couples, the separation risk increases by 23%, but for female-breadwinner households with children, the risk spikes by 49%. They also find that equal earners have a 6% higher risk of separation compared to male-breadwinner couples.
For these men, there was nothing better than becoming a dad. Where men felt any sense of purpose, it was almost always related to providing and caring for their children. Read more: ifstudies.org/blog/family-an…
The right answer to the question, “Ought you feel free to recline?” is “It depends.” washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
We should treat this study carefully. Longitudinal data is good, but it's not as good as looking at random shocks.Undetectable variation in character drives change, making it impossible to do longitudinal research with all controls. Have there been shocks to women's earnings?
In marriages since 1975, wives' earnings and employment don't predict divorce. The risk sits near 2.5%/yr no matter what she does on that front. If a husband doesn't have full-time work, it's 3.3% vs 2.5%. Study: scholar.harvard.edu/files/akillewa…
