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ECONOMIC BURDENS OF MARITAL DISRUPTIONS: A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Author(s) -
Burkhauser Richard V.,
Duncan Greg J.,
Hauser Richard,
Berntsen Roland
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00317.x
Subject(s) - german , demographic economics , economics , panel data , west germany , marital status , panel study of income dynamics , longitudinal data , demography , geography , econometrics , sociology , economic history , population , archaeology
Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio‐Economic Panel are used to show that women and children are worse off following a marital split than are men in both the United States and Germany. The size of the difference is sensitive to the equivalence scale used, but despite its far more extensive tax and transfer system the disparate impact of divorce or separation on women and children persisted in Germany at a level at least as high as in the United States.