Dollars, Dependency, and Divorce: Four Perspectives on the Role of Wives’ Income

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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households (2013, background): “…relative income and divorce.6 Heckert et al. (1998), Jalovaara (2003), and Liu and Vikat (2004) report that couples are more likely to divorce if the wife earns more than the husband while Rogers (2004) argues that divorce is most likely when the couples earn around the same amount of money.”
How power corrupts relationships: Cynical attributions for others' generous acts (2012, result): “We are quick to note that there are mixed results regarding the effect of income disparity on divorce rates (Cohn & Fry, 2010; Jalovaara, 2003; Rogers, 2004; White & Rogers, 2000).”
Divorce in Europe and the United States: Commonalities and differences across nations (2010, background): “More recent evidence from the United States, however, is mixed about the strength and even the direction of these associations (Rogers, 2004; Sayer & Bianchi, 2000; Schoen, Rogers, & Amato, 2006).”
Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, but It Helps: Marital Satisfaction, Psychological Distress, and Demographic Differences Between Low- and Middle-Income Clinic Couples (2008, background): “Given the need to support themselves after divorce, it is not surprising that wives' economic resources have been positively associated with risk of divorce ( Rogers, 2004 ; Rogers & DeBoer, 2001 ).”