{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Kapelle N"],"funding":["European Research Council"],"pagination":["592-611"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9303434"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["84(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objective</h4>To explore disparities in wealth trajectories between divorcees and continuously married individuals including moderation effects of remarriage and gender.<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Method</h4>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 allowed (1) married controls to be assigned a theoretical divorce date for ease of comparability to the treatment group (i.e., divorcees) and (2) the account of a wide range of baseline differences.<h4>Results</h4>Wealth differences between ever-divorce and continuously married individuals stem from lasting disadvantage-particularly for housing wealth-generated immediately around divorce rather than a scarring of divorcees' wealth accumulation. Remarriage but particularly gender is relevant moderators. Whereas remarriage moderates net wealth trajectories through housing wealth, gender moderates trajectories through financial wealth.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Divorce importantly contributes to wealth stratification. Mitigation of divorce-related wealth penalties for both men and women needs to focus on immediate, but lasting costs of divorce particularly regarding homeownership."],"journal":["Journal of marriage and the family"],"pubmed_title":["Time cannot heal all wounds: Wealth trajectories of divorcees and the married."],"pmcid":["PMC9303434"],"funding_grant_id":["681546"],"pubmed_authors":["Kapelle N"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Time cannot heal all wounds: Wealth trajectories of divorcees and the married.","description":"<h4>Objective</h4>To explore disparities in wealth trajectories between divorcees and continuously married individuals including moderation effects of remarriage and gender.<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Method</h4>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 allowed (1) married controls to be assigned a theoretical divorce date for ease of comparability to the treatment group (i.e., divorcees) and (2) the account of a wide range of baseline differences.<h4>Results</h4>Wealth differences between ever-divorce and continuously married individuals stem from lasting disadvantage-particularly for housing wealth-generated immediately around divorce rather than a scarring of divorcees' wealth accumulation. Remarriage but particularly gender is relevant moderators. Whereas remarriage moderates net wealth trajectories through housing wealth, gender moderates trajectories through financial wealth.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Divorce importantly contributes to wealth stratification. Mitigation of divorce-related wealth penalties for both men and women needs to focus on immediate, but lasting costs of divorce particularly regarding homeownership.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Apr","modification":"2025-04-26T23:26:11.927Z","creation":"2025-04-06T17:31:30.815Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9303434","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35874926"],"doi":["10.1111/jomf.12824"]}}