as absolute income of their husbands. We find, after controlling for husbands absolute income and other individual … characteristics, that married women are more likely to be in labor force when their husbands relative income is low. Results are … robust across various settings and measures of relative income and the size of the effect is economically meaningful. We also …

income of their husbands. After controlling for their husbands' absolute income and other individual characteristics, married … women are more likely to be in labor force when their husbands' relative income is low. Especially, we found that married … women who worked anytime during last year are more likely to stay in the labor market when her husband's relative income is …

outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …

mothers' economic well-being. Using 25-years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1990 to … parenthood is as strongly linked to reduced income as partner absence. Comparing how these different routes to single motherhood … affect economic outcomes, I show that previously married mothers face larger income penalties than those who were single when …