Partnership dissolution: How does it affect income, employment and well-being?

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We assess comprehensively how incomes, employment, housing, mental health and life satisfaction change following a partnership dissolution, using data from 18 waves of BHPS. We confirm that women and children see living standards decline by more than men, on average, upon separation, but find that the fall in living standards is much greater for those women and children formally in high-income households; it is also high for older women with non-dependent children. We find that mental health and life satisfaction decline around separation, but both return quickly to pre-split levels at rates which are little related to post- split circumstances.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2014-30

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Family and Personal Law
• Subject: British Household Panel Study ; partnership dissolution ; separation ; divorce ; GHQ ; living standards ; mental health

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brewer, Mike ; Nandi, Alita
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126462
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET