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I am a fourth-year doctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST). My research investigate economic and cultural causes of the increasing class inequality in union dissolution in Western societies.

Drawing on William J. Goode’s theory (1962), I posit that this shift results from the interaction of two key variables: marital strain and barriers to union dissolution.

Chapter 1 discusses and extends Goode’s strain-barrier theory by formally incorporating ideational change.

Chapter 2 is a direct empirical test of this updated theory and uses survey data on children of immigrants from conservative countries.

Chapter 3 assesses whether religiosity acted as a barrier to nonmarital births and divorce at the onset of their spread, using census and church attendance data.

Chapter 4, investigates the impact of manufacturing job losses on single motherhood and divorce, combining census and administrative employer-employee data,