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Title: Divorce Probabilities and Young Women's Occupational Choices
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Gray, Jeffrey S. |
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Divorce Probabilities and Young Women's Occupational Choices Working Paper, Department of Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, May 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Agriculture and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois Keyword(s): Divorce; Labor Force Participation; Occupational Choice; Occupational Status; Variables, Instrumental; Wives, Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Longitudinal data suggest that young women increase their labor force participation two to three years prior to divorcing. This increase in labor market activity largely reflects a rise in the percentage of wives working in professional and managerial occupations. This paper investigates the direction of causality between wives' employment decisions and divorce probabilities using instrumental variables techniques. The results support the hypothesis that rising divorce probabilities contribute to women's increasing participation in professional occupations. A women's occupational choice does not have a significant effect on her probability of divorce. |
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Gray, Jeffrey S. "Divorce Probabilities and Young Women's Occupational Choices." Working Paper, Department of Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, May 1994. |