Gendered housing consequences of divorce - An analysis of marital dyads from different-sex and female same-sex couples
Previous studies indicate that women experience larger material losses following divorce than men. This disparity may be attributed to various factors, including women’s caregiving roles during the marriage and the wage gap between genders. Women may also face elevated levels of housing insecurity if divorce prevents them from retaining owner-occupied housing following marital disruption. Because most studies focus on different-sex couples, little evidence is available on whether women married to women experience a smaller loss in homeownership than women married to men following divorce. Using record-linkage data of marital dyads from different-sex and female same-sex couples in Finland, we assessed changes in both spouses’ homeownership and marital home residence for three years before and after the year of divorce (2002-2021). Our study indicates that losses in homeownership, as well as the loss of a marital home, are greater for women divorcing men compared to both their husbands and women divorcing women. On the other hand, women in same-sex couples are less likely to own their marital homes before the divorce, suggesting that they have fewer material resources to lose in a divorce than women in different-sex couples. The findings indicate that no divorced group fully recovers from their losses within three years of the divorce. However, spouses who earned more than their marital dyads experienced smaller losses, suggesting that nontraditional gender roles may protect women from adverse housing consequences following divorce.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are typically conceptualized as experiences of different types of maltreatment, neglect, or household dysfunction, of which the latter consists of experiences related to parents and the family environment, such as parental mental health and substance use problems and parental incarceration. Previous studies have shown that ACEs are robust risk factors of a wide array of different health, behavioural and social outcomes, including, for instance, common psychiatric disorders, problematic alcohol use, criminal behaviour and not being in education, employment, or training. These studies have mostly used standard regression models with adjustment for confounders available in data. However, more recent work in the field suggests that the population-level estimates may be upwardly biased due to unobserved familial confounding in these associations. This presentation will show examples from two studies, which utilize register data and explore this confounding by using family fixed effects models. The results of these studies indicate the presence of familial confounding, but also that the amount of this is dependent on the studied exposure-outcome pairs, and that the associations between the studied ACEs and the elevated risk of mental health, behavioural and social outcomes remain in the family comparisons. Limitations of the studies are discussed. In addition, a short introduction of the research consortium ACElife will be given.
Aapo Hiilamo (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and MaxHel Center) presents: Children’s out-of-home care in Finland, 1993–2020: lifetime risks, expectancies, exit routes, and number of placements for synthetic cohorts. This presentation seeks answers to questions like:
We warmly welcome you to join us for our seminar PopHel Talks in Zoom. Our first presenter will be Alvaro Obeso with the title “Microevolutionary genetic processes of Roma population based in the Basque country: A Short Tandem Repeat based study.” This presentation will focus on: