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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Main Authors:	Lambert, Sylvie, van de Walle, Dominique, Villar, Paola
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	MARITAL DISSOLUTION WIDOWHOOD DIVORCE WELFARE GENDER
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/365271509384753684/Marital-trajectories-and-womens-well-being-in-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28615

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spelling	okr-10986-286152021-06-08T14:42:45Z Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal Lambert, Sylvie van de Walle, Dominique Villar, Paola MARITAL DISSOLUTION WIDOWHOOD DIVORCE WELFARE GENDER 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. 2017-10-30T21:53:41Z 2017-10-30T21:53:41Z 2017-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/365271509384753684/Marital-trajectories-and-womens-well-being-in-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28615 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8230 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Senegal
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8230
description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Lambert, Sylvie van de Walle, Dominique Villar, Paola
author_facet	Lambert, Sylvie van de Walle, Dominique Villar, Paola
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title	Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal
title_short	Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal
title_full	Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal
title_fullStr	Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal
title_full_unstemmed	Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal
title_sort	marital trajectories and women's well-being in senegal
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/365271509384753684/Marital-trajectories-and-womens-well-being-in-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28615
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Marital Trajectories and Women's Well-Being in Senegal

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