The new article by Scheppingen and Leopold Trajectories of Life Satisfaction Before, Upon, and After Divorce: Evidence from a New Matching Approach analyses how divorce influences life satisfaction. The results indicate that life satisfaction declines among divorcees, and that some declines last at least five years after the divorce. Van Scheppingen and Leopold analyse trajectories … Read more
Trajectories of Life Satisfaction Before, Upon, and After Divorce: Evidence From a New Matching Approach
Divorce and the Growth of Poverty Gaps Over the Life Course: A Risk and Vulnerability Approach
A new paper by Hogendoorn, Leopold and Bol, Divorce and the Growth of Poverty Gaps Over the Life Course: A Risk and Vulnerability Approach, published in the DIAL working paper series, examines educational gradients in the relationship between divorce and poverty. The authors take a new approach to studying growing poverty gaps between education groups … Read more
Fetal programming of neuropsychiatric disorders by maternal pregnancy depression: a systematic mini review
Preterm birth: high vulnerability and no resiliency? Reflections on van Lieshout et al.(2018)
Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
This working paper takes up the issue of multifaceted inequality by putting forth a new measure of unfair inequality. The authors argue that inequality is not bad per se, but that one should differentiate between different aspects of inequality in order to make normative statements about the fairness of a given income distribution.