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How Long Will You Be a Widow? Determinants, Trends, and Income Gradient in Widowhood Duration
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 467–488.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Julie Tréguier; Carole Bonnet; Didier Blanchet Abstract Understanding widowhood duration is essential for individuals and effective widow support policies, yet widowhood duration remains an understudied topic. In this article, we provide a quantitative estimation of the impact of three primary...
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Evolution of widowhood duration from 1962 to 2020. We assume a fixed two-ye...
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Published: 01 April 2025
Fig. 1 Evolution of widowhood duration from 1962 to 2020. We assume a fixed two-year spousal age gap. Source: INSEE life tables.
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The role of mortality overlap in widowhood duration in 2020. Mortality dist...
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Fig. 2 The role of mortality overlap in widowhood duration in 2020. Mortality distributions are simulated using a Gompertz law and assuming neither a spousal age gap nor any dependence of spousal mortality. UWD is the unconditional widowhood duration. F = M is the scenario in which women have
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Widowhood duration in relation to the spousal age gap and dependence of spo...
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Fig. 3 Widowhood duration in relation to the spousal age gap and dependence of spousal mortality. Mortality distributions are simulated using a Gompertz law. Note that the blue numbers are the same in each graph. Sources: Authors’ simulations and INSEE life tables.
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Determinants of female widowhood duration in 2020. In 2020, expected widowh...
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Fig. 4 Determinants of female widowhood duration in 2020. In 2020, expected widowhood duration at age 60 was 10.4 years. Ignoring the dependence of spousal mortality would have increased widowhood duration by 3 years (∆), to 13.4. Disregarding the existence of a spousal age gap would have
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Projected evolution of widowhood duration from 2020 to 2070. Mortality dist...
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Fig. 5 Projected evolution of widowhood duration from 2020 to 2070. Mortality distributions are simulated using a Gompertz law. Sources: Authors’ simulations and INSEE life tables.
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Median and extreme widowhood duration by standard of living for females. Mo...
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Fig. 7 Median and extreme widowhood duration by standard of living for females. Mortality distributions are simulated using a Gompertz law. Sources: Authors’ simulations and INSEE life tables.
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Changes in widowhood and divorce and expected durations of marriage
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 297–307.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Noreen Goldman Abstract A new interpretation of mathematical formulas developed by Keyfitz illustrates how the concept of entropy ( H ) can be applied to the analysis of marriage dissolution. The quantities H (divorce) and H (widowhood) indicate the changes in marriage duration which would result...
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Widowhood and joint survival durations per standard-of-living ventile in 20...
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Fig. 6 Widowhood and joint survival durations per standard-of-living ventile in 2016. Mortality distributions are simulated using a Gompertz law. Sources: Authors’ simulations and INSEE life tables.
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African-American marriage in 1910: Beneath the surface of census data
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Samuel H. Preston; Suet Lim; S. Philip Morgan Abstract This paper examines the quality of information about marital status, marital duration, and marriage order among African-American women in the U.S. Census of 1910. It compares the reported prevalence of widowhood to estimates of widowhood based...
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Measuring the Effects of Race Differentials in Mortality Upon Surviving Family Members
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 419–430.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Gordon F. Sutton Abstract A model is developed to use marital history data from the U.S. Current Population Survey and mortality statistics from the federal registration system to estimate color differences in (a) the risk of widowhood among women in the working ages and (b) the cumulative duration...
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Remarriage patterns among recent widows and widowers
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 361–374.
Published: 01 August 1991
... on the remarriage rates. Overall, age and time since widowhood have the strongest and most consistent effects on remarriage rates for different widowed groups. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1991 1991 Hazard Rate Unobserved Heterogeneity Gompertz Model Duration Dependence...
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Proximate Sources of Change in Trajectories of First Marriage in the United States, 1960–2010
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 835–862.
Published: 21 March 2019
... to longer average durations of first marriage. There is no clear expectation about how more intense assortative mating affects the probability of widowhood. Because the average difference in mortality between men and women who are concordant on education exceeds the average difference in mortality between...
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Changes in the family status of elderly women in Korea
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 February 1992
... in the family status of elderly women: how will changes in mortality and fertility affect the probability, timing, and duration of widowhood? How will they influence the probability that elderly women will have surviving children (sons or daughters) who could be potential sources of support? To address...
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Marriage and divorce in twentieth century American cohorts
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 101–114.
Published: 01 February 1985
... of a widowhood 7.1 6.9 6.8 6.9 7.0 7.2 7.4 7.6 17. Average duration of a divorce 5.0 4.9 4.8 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.8 5.2 18. Proportion of life spent never married .438 .428 .429 .418 .400 .383 .374 .361 19. Proportion of life spent presently married .509 .520 .520 .530 .546 .561 .566 .576 20. Proportion of life spent...
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Sex differences in life cycle measures of widowhood
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 177–195.
Published: 01 May 1983
...), the mean time from widowhood or widowerhood until the death of the second spouse, and the mean duration of marriage until the death of either spouse (in the absence of divorce). Although there have been some previ- ous attempts to measure life cycle char- acteristics of widowhood (e.g., Myers, 1959; Glick...
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Widowhood and Mortality: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 575–606.
Published: 17 March 2012
... and additional covariates. The results for Bangladesh/Lebanon should be treated with caution as well, considering the small number of studies conducted. An interesting finding emerges from the current analyses concerning the difference in the effect of widowhood on mortality by the duration of follow-up...
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HIV status and union dissolution in Sub-saharan Africa: The case of Rakai, Uganda
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., .8510) .1780 4.28 .0483 2.82 F+M+ .6234 (.5606, .6863) .1073 2.58** .2940 17.20 **p .01; p .001 HIV Status and Union Dissolution 477 longer duration of the disease. A surprising finding was that female HIV-positive discor- dant unions (F+M ) had higher relative odds of widowhood than did concordant...
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Wives and ex-wives: A new test for homogamy bias in the widowhood effect
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 851–873.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Death of Spouse in Relation to Duration of Bereavement in Fin- land. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 50:264 68. A New Test for Homogamy Bias in the Widowhood Effect 873 Morgan, S.L. 2004. Methodologists as Arbitrators: Five Models for Black-White Differences in the Causal Effect...
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A Macrosimulation Approach to the Investigation of Natural Fertility
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Demography (1982) 19 (2): 161–176.
Published: 01 May 1982
... in Figure 1. The first four intermediate dis- 164 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 19, number 2, May 1982 6. Risk of Widowhood, Divorce, and Remarriage Intermediate Fertility Variables I. Natural Fecundability l 2. Contraceptive Use and Effectiveness 3. Spontaneous and Induced Abortion I 4. Duration of Postparturn...
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