Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
separation. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the probability of a separation. We show … that this basic relationship between the gap in satisfaction and the probability of separation is robust to a number of …