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Title: The Effects of Women's Economic Independence on Divorce: A Nash Bargaining Model in a Life Course Context
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Heidemann, Bridget O'Rand, Angela M. |
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The Effects of Women's Economic Independence on Divorce: A Nash Bargaining Model in a Life Course Context Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Bargaining Model; Divorce; Economic Independence; Economic Well-Being; Economics of Gender; Household Composition; Life Course; Modeling, Logit Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We explore the relationship between women's economic independence and the likelihood of divorce in midlife. Since the consequences of divorce depend on the presence and ages of children in the household, but the onset of the "empty nest" stage varies across marriages, we analyze the decision to divorce from a life course perspective. In particular, we investigate two hypotheses: I) ceteris paribus, an increase in the wife's economic independence increases the probability of marital dissolution and 2) the magnitude of this effect depends on the presence and ages of children in the household. To test these hypotheses, we estimate logit models of divorce using a sample of households from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. In addition to demographic variables typically used to predict divorce, our explanatory variables include measures of the wife's economic independence interacted with dummy variables representing the age of the youngest child in the family. |
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Heidemann, Bridget and Angela M. O'Rand. "The Effects of Women's Economic Independence on Divorce: A Nash Bargaining Model in a Life Course Context." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. |