Allocation of Expenditures in Elderly Households and the Cost of Widowhood
Summary Widowhood and retirement change the economie environment of elderly households. While retirement changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Besides high non-monetary cost of losing the partner, resources are no longer shared and e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03399512 |