Lost jobs, broken marriages

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Caution! Men not at work: Gender-specific labor market conditions and child maltreatment (2018, unknown): “Family structure is another mechanism to consider, given evidence that job loss increases the incidence of divorce (Charles and Stephens Jr 2004, Eliason 2012, Doiron and Mendolia 2011).”
Learning about job search: A field experiment with job seekers in Germany (2015, methodology): “…Gerdtham and Johannesson 2003, Eliason and Storrie 2009), stability of marriages and other personal relations (e.g., Jensen and Smith 1990, Kraft 2001, Eliason 2012), and overall life satisfaction (e.g., Clark and Oswald 1994, Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998, Kassenboehmer and Haisken-DeNew 2009).”
The impact of job loss on family dissolution (2012, background): “Eliason (2004) underlines that the traits needed to keep a job are partly the same as the traits that make a partner desirable, and a job loss may reveal new information about the match quality.”
The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples’ Fertility Decisions (2016, unknown): “1 Charles & Melwin (2004) and Eliason (2004) have shown that job loss significantly increases divorce probability. 2 See Korkeamäki and Kyyrä (2008), and Verho (2008) for previous studies that have examined the earnings effects of this recession on Finnish workers.”