Abstract
This article explores the meaning and the magnitude of the oftenobserved positive relationship between a wife's earnings and marital instability. It is shown that the magnitude of this relationship depends on the overall risk of marital instability, whether, a wife works overtime, and the interpersonal competence of the husband. Interpersonal competence is proxied using variables that measure locus of control, trust, need for affiliation, planfulness, and whether the husband angers easily. The sample, from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, contains data for 1855 families headed by men age 16 to 54 in 1968. The dependent variable, is whether a divorce or separation occurred between 1968 and 1972. The estimation method is Logit.
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