This paper addresses women's under-representation in top jobs in organizational hierarchies. We show that promotions to … top jobs dramatically increase women's probability of divorce, but do not affect men's marriages. This effect is causally … in dual-earner households and are married to older husbands who take a small share of parental leave. Divorce among women …

This article explores the aggregate effects of women's empowerment on intra- and intertemporal household choices within …. Emphasis is placed on the role of attitudes towards risk and subsistence consumption. In this context, we find that as women … get more empowered, we assume that households show a higher risk aversion reflecting the more risk adverse women …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …