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Wealth in Couples

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The special issue "Wealth in couples" continues recent efforts to evaluate the consequences of the increasing trend toward separation of economic resources among partners. This trend was observed previously for income and this special issue offers deeper insights into it by considering wealth. The special issue consists of five original, empirical studies that complement each other in pursuing three innovative contributions: First, they shed light on the existence of within-couple wealth inequalities documenting the gender wealth gap among partners by using various unique datasets on net wealth, pension rights, and matrimonial property regimes. Second, the studies identify factors affecting within-couple wealth inequalities by highlighting the role of demographic processes as well as of the institutional context in shaping these inequalities. Finally, the present contributions analyse the link between wealth ownership structure in the households and gender differences in subjective wellbeing. Overall, the findings are not just relevant because they make theoretical and empirical advances but also because they can inform policy and institutional design.

Editors

  • Philipp M. Lersch Philipp M. Lersch , 

    Philipp M. Lersch

    Philipp M. Lersch is currently an associate professor in sociology of social policy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His research focuses on social inequalities over and between life courses of individuals in divergent institutional contexts focusing on the family, wealth, and employment. His recent work has been published in outlets such as American Sociological Review, Demography, and Social Forces.

  • Agnese Vitali Agnese Vitali  &

    Agnese Vitali

    Agnese Vitali is Associate Professor of Demography at the University of Trento and Secretary of the Italian Association for Population Studies. She is a social demographer interested in couples' dynamics and gender inequalities. Her research has been published in Demography, Demographic Research and Population Studies, among others.

  • Emanuela Struffolino Emanuela Struffolino

    Emanuela Struffolino

    Emanuela Struffolino is Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Sequence Analysis Association. Her research interests include life-course sociology, gender inequalities in the labor market, social stratification, and methods for longitudinal data. She has published her work in Demography, European Journal of Population, Social Stratification Research, Social Science Research, Advances in Life Course Research among others, and she is the author (with Marcel Raab) of the book “Sequence Analysis” (SAGE).

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