The Effect of Incomes, Wages, and AFDC Benefits on Marital Disruption
用选择模型估计AFDC福利、丈夫收入和女性工资率对离婚概率的影响，发现丈夫收入高降低离婚风险，AFDC福利对离婚概率影响小，女性工资上升不增加婚姻不稳定。
This paper uses a choice-based model to estimate the effects of a broad set of economic factors, including AFDC benefit levels, husband's earnings, and a woman's wage rate, on the probability of marital dissolution. We find that the probability of divorce is lower for marriages in which the husband's labor income is higher. We also find that while AFDC income has a substantial effect on welfare receipt by a divorced woman, it has a relatively small effect on the probability that a married woman will become divorced. Finally, we find no support for the hypothesis that rising wages for women have increased marital instability.