“…Surprisingly, however, a vast literature documents that income losses related to union dissolution are concentrated in women from high-income unions (Bonnet et al, 2021 ; Brewer & Nandi, 2014 ; Duncan & Hoffman, 1985 ; Fisher & Low, 2016 ; Jarvis & Jenkins, 1999 ; Rowe & Lown, 1990 ; Uunk, 2004 ; Weiss, 1984 ; Weitzman, 1981 ). Whereas women from high-income unions witness steep declines in their standard of living, women from low-income unions witness little change or even improve their situation somewhat.…”