This study finds that lower educated couples are more likely to separate than their better educated peers, because they experience strain across multiple aspects of their life, including work, finance, … Read more
Why do lower educated people separate more often? Life strains and the gradient in union dissolution
Union dissolution and income inequality among separating women
This study looks at women’s standard of living immediately after divorce or separation. It finds that women who had a higher standard of living tend to lose more from divorce … Read more
Divorce and Diverging Poverty Rates: A Risk‐and‐Vulnerability Approach
This study offers a new approach to analyzing life course inequalities and applies it to the link between divorce and poverty. Previous research has suggested that divorce drives cumulative inequality … Read more
Why is there an educational gradient in union dissolution? The strain thesis revisited
This study finds that lower educated couples are more likely to separate than their better educated peers, because they experience strain across multiple aspects of their life, including work, finance, … Read more
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 … Read more