Time cannot heal all wounds: Wealth trajectories of divorcees and the married.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore disparities in wealth trajectories between divorcees and continuously married individuals including moderation effects of remarriage and gender.

Background

Amid concerns of long-term economic consequences of divorce, research illustrated that ever-divorced individuals hold less wealth than the married preretirement. However, it remains unclear whether this is a direct result of immediate, lasting divorce-related wealth penalties or whether divorce also leads to long-term wealth accumulation disparities.

Method

Using personal-level, longitudinal wealth data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study, I applied propensity score and exact matching with random-effects growth models to compare wealth trajectories of divorcees and the married. The matching all

SUBMITTER: Kapelle N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9303434 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature