I’m a little worried about bias resulting from one member of a couple reporting income for both, but they have some very cool approaches to some difficult analytical problems. Thanks for pointing it out!
Whoa. "Our estimates imply that aversion to having the wife earn more than the husband explains 29 percent of the decline in marriage rates over the last thirty years."https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/130/2/571/2330321 …
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Wasn't there research that showed gendered inconsistencies of reporting income using tax records? I think men under-reported their wives earnings when wives were the higher-earner? I wish I could find that article again.
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That sounds really familiar. I’ll see if I have it somewhere.
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That would be great! I remember wishing I had thought to study that but I can't seem to find the article now.
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Is it this one? https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2018/demo/SEHSD-WP2018-20.html … I was just looking at it when I saw your tweets.
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Yes! That's the one, thanks. Now safely downloaded into my Zotero library.
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Some related (simpler) graphs of relative income and marriagehttps://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/say-you-dont-need-no-diamond-ring/ …
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How much of this could be explained by female mate preference/hypergamy? It seems the desire for the man to earn more isn’t a uniquely male preference in marriage markets.
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True. In my research, men and women are usually more in agreement about sexist practices than I ever expect.
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I've spent most of the past several years working in China and Taiwan, have lived in the ME as well. This holds true within those societies. Resource expectations of the male are the norm. There is some progress in Taiwan, and even China with the gender imbalance due to SSA.
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This works in both directions in the US, too... some friends of mine were dating, but the gal (influenced by her parents) felt unsure of it in part because she made a lot more than he did, so they broke it off. The patriarchy hurts all of us.
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Yes, reality is very hurtful to all.
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Nice! Thanks for sharing the link!
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Aversion coming from men or from women?
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The authors refer to the "couples aversion," so I would interpret that as men and women (but this research didn't test for the source of the aversion).
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The part abour doing more chores seems more consistent with male preferences.
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This study appears to critically examine a greater host of contributing factors on this q and seems to demonstrate that the modern shift away from gender identity influence to egalitarian bases for marriage is precipitating the end of your divorce trendhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021537/ …
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Quote fro the summary discussion: "Our results show that if there ever was a positive association between outearning one’s husband and marital dissolution, it has diminished across cohorts and is now small and statistically insignificant."
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Thanks for the careful and more nuanced read!
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