Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap

Ruel, Erin; Hauser, Robert M.

doi:10.1007/s13524-012-0182-0

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“…These might attenuate the absence of a partner for health-related social control among women. On the other hand, married women tend to accumulate more wealth than single women, which could overinflate the number of married women in more wealthy groups [36]. …”

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Wealth and Disability in Later Life: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

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We examined wealth inequalities in disability, taking into account the effect of both depression and social support among older English adults using data from 5,506 community-dwelling people aged 50 years and over from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Disability was measured as self-reported limitations in the Basic Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). Depressive symptomatology was measured using the 8-item Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale. Social support was assessed by marital status and frequency of contact with friends, relatives or children. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to assess the role of social support and depressive symptoms on disability by total household wealth, which is a measure of accumulated assets over the course of life. Our findings showed that the poorest men with disability were more likely to live without a partner and have no weekly contact with children, family or friends compared to the wealthiest. Among women with disability, the poorest were more likely to report loneliness and have no partner while the wealthiest and the intermediate groups were more likely to be living with a partner. There was a strong inverse dose-response association between wealth and depressive symptoms among all participants with disability. This study shows a clear wealth gradient in disability among older English adults, especially for those with elevated depressive symptoms.

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Wealth and Disability in Later Life: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

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“…In most of the datasets providing data about wealth distribution the household is the elementary unit because it is assumed that income and wealth are equally distributed at the household level. But several studies refute this assumption [50,51,71,74,80]. Therefore, an explanation for the gap between the gender ratio of investment volume in citizen associations and the gender wealth gap might be the distribution of assets within couples.…”

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Gender matters: Women, renewable energy, and citizen participation in Germany

Fraune

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Either the male or female component of such a mechanism would have far-reaching consequences, as discussed by Ruel and Hauser (2007). It is not often the case that survey data permit comparison of a respondent's real and reported characteristics.…”

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Migration and stratification

Jasso

2011

Social Science Research

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Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances - who gets what and why - and migration is about improving life chances - getting more of the good things of life. To examine the interconnections of migration and stratification, we address a mix of old and new questions, carrying out analyses newly enabled by a unique new data set on recent legal immigrants to the United States (the New Immigrant Survey). We look at immigrant processing and lost documents, depression due to the visa process, presentation of self, the race-ethnic composition of an immigrant cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin-color diversity among couples formed by U.S. citizen sponsors and immigrant spouses, and English fluency among children age 8–12 and their immigrant parents. We find, inter alia, that children of previously illegal parents are especially more likely to be fluent in English, that native-born U.S. citizen women tend to marry darker, that immigrant applicants who go through the visa process while already in the United States are more likely to have their documents lost and to suffer visa depression, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens to overturn racial and skin color associations with skill. Our analyses show the mutual embeddedness of migration and stratification in the unfolding of the immigrants' and their children's life chances and the impacts on the stratification structure of the United States.

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Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap

Cited by 125 publications

References 38 publications

Wealth and Disability in Later Life: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Wealth and Disability in Later Life: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Gender matters: Women, renewable energy, and citizen participation in Germany

Migration and stratification

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