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“Grey Divorces” in Europe: Trends and Correlates
Cecilia Tomassini, Francesco Acciai, Daniele Vignoli

##manager.scheduler.building##: Velodromo - Bocconi University
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Date: 2019-01-26 09:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Last modified: 2018-12-26

Abstract


The so-called grey divorces – i.e. voluntary marital dissolutions after age 50 – have been receiving growing attention, both by the press and non-academic discourses. ,Nonetheless, while a vast amount of research on the socio-demographic, health-related, and economic consequences of divorce at older ages exists, only a few studies analysed trends and correlates of “grey divorces”. In addition, these few studies are limited to the U.S. context. This paper aims at filling this gap. Using official data and 5 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we document trends and correlates of divorce in later life across Europe, shedding light on a still rare, but demographically and sociologically interesting phenomenon.


Keywords


divorce; older people; europe