The following questions relate to the Folke & Rickne (2020) paper.

a. What is the central question of this paper?

b. Give two reasons why we might expect women's earnings or career success to affect their probability of divorce.

c. It could be the case that women who are likely to divorce have unobserved characteristics that mean that they are also more likely to be successful in their careers (for example, ambition). How would this bias our estimates of the relationship between career success and divorce (in what direction)? Explain.

d. Explain in words how Folke & Rickne attempt to identify the causal effect of career success on divorce. I am looking for an intuitive explanationimagine explaining what they did to a friend who is not an economics major.

e. Identify three "takeaways" from Figure 5, Panel A.