Changes in Wives' Income: Effects on Marital Happiness, Psychological Well‐Being, and the Risk of Divorce

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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 ).”
Trends in Marital Happiness by Gender and Race, 1973 to 2006 (2009, background): “…may improve marital quality by contributing to greater equality between spouses (Coltrane, 1996; Risman & Johnson-Sumerford, 1998; Scanzoni, 1978) and greater financial stability among couples (greenstein, 1990; Hoffman & Duncan, 1995; Oppenheimer, 1994; Rogers & DeBoer, 2001; Tsang et al., 2003).”
Division of Household Labor and Marital Satisfaction in China, Japan, and Korea (2013, background): “Some researchers have found no evidence for a negative relation between female employment (or female share of household income) and marital stability or satisfaction (Oppenheimer, 1997; Rogers & DeBoer, 2001; Sayer & Bianchi, 2000).”