Search Results
Author: Heidemann, Bridget
Resulting in 2 citations.
| 1. |
Heidemann, Bridget O'Rand, Angela M. |
|
The Effects of Women's Economic Independence on Divorce: A Nash Bargaining Model in a Life Course Context Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Bargaining Model; Divorce; Economic Independence; Economic Well-Being; Economics of Gender; Household Composition; Life Course; Modeling, Logit Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We explore the relationship between women's economic independence and the likelihood of divorce in midlife. Since the consequences of divorce depend on the presence and ages of children in the household, but the onset of the "empty nest" stage varies across marriages, we analyze the decision to divorce from a life course perspective. In particular, we investigate two hypotheses: I) ceteris paribus, an increase in the wife's economic independence increases the probability of marital dissolution and 2) the magnitude of this effect depends on the presence and ages of children in the household. To test these hypotheses, we estimate logit models of divorce using a sample of households from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. In addition to demographic variables typically used to predict divorce, our explanatory variables include measures of the wife's economic independence interacted with dummy variables representing the age of the youngest child in the family. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Heidemann, Bridget and Angela M. O'Rand. "The Effects of Women's Economic Independence on Divorce: A Nash Bargaining Model in a Life Course Context." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. |
| 2. |
Heidemann, Bridget Suhomlinova, Olga O'Rand, Angela M. |
|
Economic Independence, Economic Status, and Empty Nest in Midlife Marital Disruption Journal of Marriage and Family 60,1 (February 1998): 219-231. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/353453 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Divorce; Economic Independence; Economic Well-Being; Economics of Gender; Family Formation; Life Course; Marital Disruption; Marital Dissolution; Marital Status; Nestleaving We examine the risk of separation or divorce later in the marital career from a family development perspective. With data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, we use a hazards framework to estimate the effects of women's economic independence, couples' economic status, and family life course factors on the risk of middle-age separation or divorce. Several dimensions of economic independence and economic status influence the risk of midlife marital disruption. Moreover, the transition to empty nest influences the risk of marital disruption, but the effect of empty nest depends on the duration of the marriage. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Heidemann, Bridget, Olga Suhomlinova and Angela M. O'Rand. "Economic Independence, Economic Status, and Empty Nest in Midlife Marital Disruption." Journal of Marriage and Family 60,1 (February 1998): 219-231.
|