Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples' Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines wealth accumulation among couple-headed households and investigates changes in within-household inequality over time and across couple statuses. Going beyond previous research that mostly studies wealth accumulation within marriages by comparing married with unmarried individuals, we consider the legal statuses of couples (cohabitation, civil union, and marriage) and property regimes (community and separate property). We apply multivariate regression analysis to high-quality longitudinal data from the French wealth survey (2015-2018) and find no differences in net worth accumulation between couples' legal statuses when property regimes are not accounted for. However, couples with a separate property regime accumulate more wealth than couples with a community property re

SUBMITTER: Fremeaux N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9550916 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature