caa a22 4500 378898957 CHVBK 20180305123513.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041018xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1538-0653.1118 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1538-0653.1118 Johnson John H. 1NERA, john.johnson@nera.com Do Long Work Hours Contribute to Divorce? [Elektronische Daten] [John H. Johnson] Despite frequent claims in the popular press that Americans are working longer hours to the detriment of their families, little academic research has directly tested this proposition. I provide new descriptive evidence on the link between work hours of married couples and the likelihood that a couple will get divorced. Using samples of working couples from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, I uncover several key facts: First, the incidence of divorce is much greater when both spouses are working than when only one spouse is employed. Second, the work hours of women are more highly correlated with divorce than are the work hours of men. Finally, despite these robust correlations, it is difficult to attribute a causal effect of work hours to divorce propensity. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Divorce nationallicence Work Hours nationallicence Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 4/1(2004-10-18) 4:1 2004 4 bejeap https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0653.1118 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0653.1118 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnson John H. 1NERA, john.johnson@nera.com NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 4/1(2004-10-18) 4:1 2004 4 bejeap CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter