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Source: Journal of Women and Aging
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Caputo, Richard K. |
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Psychological, Attitudinal, and Socio-Demographic Correlates of Economic Well-Being of Mature Women Journal of Women and Aging 9,4 (1997): 37-54 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Attitudes; Disadvantaged, Economically; Economic Well-Being; Economics of Gender; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Marital Status; Psychological Effects; Retirement/Retirement Planning; Social Security; Unemployment; Women's Studies The purpose of this study was to determine attitudinal, psychological, and socio-demographic correlates of economic wellbeing of mature women. Using multiple regression analysis on a sample (N = 1,506) of mature women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience, this study found that education, race, marital history, attitude toward retirement, and unemployment were predictors of economic well-being for women aged 55-64, while education, Traditionally, and work effort were predictors for women aged 65-69. Neither home ownership residence, receipt of Social Security/other retirement pension benefits, internal-external locus of control, nor health limitations were associated with economic well-being. Bivariate findings indicated that older women were more likely than younger women to be economically disadvantaged and that compared to younger economically disadvantaged women, similarly situated older women were less economically disadvantaged Overall resultssuggested that older women rely on work to maintain and/or better their standard of living. Implications regarding the limited impact of Social Security and pensions on the economic well-being of women aged 55-69 are discussed. (Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service). |
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Caputo, Richard K. "Psychological, Attitudinal, and Socio-Demographic Correlates of Economic Well-Being of Mature Women." Journal of Women and Aging 9,4 (1997): 37-54.
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Jokinen-Gordon, Hanna |
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Still Penalized? Parity, Age at First Birth and Women's Income in Later Life Journal of Women and Aging 24,3 (2012): 227-241. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08952841.2012.639671 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Childbearing; Income; Life Course; Marriage; Motherhood; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Despite policies aimed at decreasing old-age income inequality, such as Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, research consistently finds that later-life poverty is highly concentrated among women. While the early-life economic disadvantages of motherhood are well established, little work has examined whether these disadvantages persist into later life. Life course research consistently demonstrates the relationship between early-life choices and later-life inequality, but few studies have examined whether the reproductive phase of a woman's life is associated with her later-life income. Using data from the 2003 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women cohort, this research examines whether women's age at first birth and parity are associated with her later-life income within the context of marriage. From a set of multivariate analyses, I find that despite a marginal statistically significant effect, substantively for the women in this cohort the effects of childbearing are not particularly consequential for later-life income. The results suggest that as women age the economic penalties associated with motherhood are less important to financial well-being than are other factors. |
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Jokinen-Gordon, Hanna. "Still Penalized? Parity, Age at First Birth and Women's Income in Later Life." Journal of Women and Aging 24,3 (2012): 227-241.
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Ross, Clifford Reczek, Rin Hossain, Monir |
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Women's Childbearing Histories and Their Alcohol Use at Midlife Journal of Woman and Aging published online (09 October 2023). Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08952841.2023.2266961 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Births, Repeat / Spacing; Childbearing; Latent Class Analysis; Women; Women at Mid-Life There has been increased alcohol use among mid-life women in recent decades. Given the association between alcohol use and childbearing earlier in life and the centrality of childbearing for other aspects of mid-life women's health, we examined how multiple components of childbearing histories were associated with mid-life alcohol use. Our analysis included 3,826 women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). We estimated how nine components of childbearing were associated with women's alcohol use at age 50. We investigated these components independently and also created six childbearing profiles using Mixed-Mode Latent Class Analysis (MM-LCA). The most alcohol was consumed by women without any childbirths, with older ages at first birth, with low parity, and with the same or fewer births than expected. Women with older ages at first and last birth and more childbirths were less likely to abstain from alcohol compared to women with younger ages at first and last birth and fewer childbirths. Our MM-LCA demonstrated that women with multiple childbirths over a long period of time consumed the least alcohol compared to other groups. Binge drinking at mid-life was generally not associated with childbearing histories in our models. In summary, childbearing histories mattered for women's drinking behaviors at mid-life. Given that an increasing number of women do not have children, the age at first birth continues to trend older, and parity is decreasing, we may expect mid-life women's alcohol use to continue to increase in line with these observed fertility trends. |
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Bibliography Citation
Thomeer, Mieke Beth, Clifford Ross, Rin Reczek and Monir Hossain. "Women's Childbearing Histories and Their Alcohol Use at Midlife." Journal of Woman and Aging published online (09 October 2023).
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