Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal
Divorce and widowhood succeeded by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's well-being. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated wi...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/365271509384753684/Marital-trajectories-and-womens-well-being-in-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28615 |
| Summary: | Divorce and widowhood succeeded by
remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is
how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect
women's well-being. Women's marital trajectories
in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of
voice, resource constraints, and consumption welfare.
Considerable selection into divorce and widowhood as well as
subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more
vulnerable to dissolutions and remarriage and hence bear
more of the costs while being nevertheless afforded a safety
net in the form of a male protector. Marital breakdowns and
their aftermaths have far from neutral effects on
women's well-being. |
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