Open AccessWealth in Middle and Later Life: Examining the Life Course Timing of Women’s Health Limitations
Author(s) -
Lindsay R. Wilkinson,
Kenneth F. Ferraro,
Sarah Mustillo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the gerontologist/the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/gny048
Subject(s) - life course approach , health and retirement study , inequality , longitudinal study , compromise , gerontology , duration (music) , psychology , demographic economics , demography , medicine , economics , developmental psychology , sociology , mathematical analysis , social science , art , mathematics , literature , pathology
Guided by cumulative inequality theory, this study poses two main questions: (a) Does women's poor health compromise household financial assets? (b) If yes, is wealth sensitive to the timing of women's health limitations? In addressing these questions, we consider the effect of health limitations on wealth at older ages, as well as examine how health limitations influence wealth over particular segments of the life course, giving attention to both the onset and duration of health limitations.