Does Marital History Matter? Marital Status and Wealth Outcomes Among Preretirement Adults

By J. Wilmoth, Gregor Koso. 2002

236 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Health

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In Demography

1. J. Zagorsky
2. Sarah O. Meadows
3. Matthew E. Dupre
4. John C. Anyanwu

In General Health Professions

1. J. Zagorsky
2. Sarah O. Meadows
3. Matthew E. Dupre
4. John C. Anyanwu

In Health

1. J. Zagorsky
2. Sarah O. Meadows
3. Matthew E. Dupre
4. John C. Anyanwu

Citations in the corpus

• Disaggregating the Effects of Marital Trajectories on Health (2007, background): “For females, the predominant viewpoint is that marriage increases financial stability and health-purchasing resources and that marital dissolution severs these important resources (Lillard & Waite, 1995; Wilmoth & Koso, 2002).”
• Working Paper 180 - Marital Status, Household Size and Poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2009-2010 Survey Data (2013, background): “Indeed, as Grinstein-Weiss and Sherraden (2006) note, marriage has a number of important features that enhance wealth accumulation (Lupton and Smith, 2003; Schoeni, 1995; Waite, 1995; Waite and Gallagher, 2000; Wilmoth and Koso, 2002).”
• Wealth distribution within couples (2013, unknown): “These events have been shown to have substantial effects on individual wealth levels (e.g., Wilmoth and Koso 2002).”
• Marriage and divorce’s impact on wealth (2005, background): “Cross-sectional US data in Korczyk (1998), Lupton and Smith (2002), and Wilmoth and Koso (2002) show that married couples’ net worths are much higher than never married, divorced, cohabitating, or widowed individuals’.”