Changes in Household Wealth over the Process of Widowhood Across European Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Widowhood has been shown to decrease surviving spouses' economic wellbeing. However, previous research has focused mostly on income-related outcomes, and has been less attentive to the importance of wealth, the processual nature of spousal death, and cross-national variation. In this study, we assessed how total, housing, and non-housing wealth changes over the process of widowhood across eleven European countries.

Methods

Individual fixed-effects regressions and longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) were used to estimate how household net total wealth, housing wealth, and non-housing wealth changed three years prior and six or more years after spousal death relative to four or more years prior to widowhood in eleven

SUBMITTER: Kapelle N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374882 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature