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Economic situation and late-life divorce: A “his” and “hers” perspective
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Stockholm University.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5241-4588
2025 (English)In: Journal of Marriage and Family, ISSN 0022-2445, E-ISSN 1741-3737Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
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Objective: This study investigated the association between individuals' economic situation and divorce among the population aged 60+ in Sweden, with a focus on the role of gender and potential changes across cohorts. Background: Previous research on divorce has mainly considered individuals of working age or all ages combined, although late-life divorce is increasing in several Western countries. Economic considerations regarding divorce may differ for older members of the population, who often have a more restricted economic situation and fewer possibilities to respond to the consequences of a dissolution. Method: Using Swedish population registers, this study investigated late-life divorce among cohorts born 1930–1956. Discrete-time event-history analysis was employed to study the relationship between income (recent and accumulated individual income, and spouses combined income levels) and divorce across gender and cohorts. Results: For women, the results showed a shifting pattern from a positive to a slightly negative gradient of the two individual income measures for divorce. Men had an increasingly negative income gradient in divorce across cohorts. The results for combined income levels for couples corroborate these patterns. Late-life divorce has become increasingly linked to low income over cohorts. Conclusion: The novel findings for older individuals mirror previous findings on trends in the general population, although those studies used other socioeconomic measures. As the association between income and divorce becomes increasingly negative among older women and men, and as the divorce rate increases, there is a growing need to understand different aspects of couple dynamics in later life. 

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Wiley , 2025.
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adult development and aging, divorce, gender, income, life events and/or transitions
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Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-54251DOI: 10.1111/jomf.13107ISI: 001460385900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105002146573OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-54251DiVA, id: diva2:1952318
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