Partnership Dissolution in the UK – the Role of Economic Circumstances
基于英国家庭面板数据，研究发现经济状况的意外改善显著降低有子女伴侣的解体风险，且子女数量增加会提高解体风险。
Estimates based on couples with dependent children in the first eight years of the British Household Panel Study (1991‐98) indicate that changes in a couple's economic circumstances affect the probability that a partnership dissolves. In particular, unexpected improvements in finances substantially reduce the dissolution risk, which strongly supports the importance of new information in decisions concerning partnership dissolution. Measures of a couple's own expectations concerning their financial situation over the coming year have been used in conjunction with realised changes to gauge the impact of unexpected changes. The study also finds that the risk of partnership dissolution increases with the number of children.