• DOI:10.1177/0898264317721824
Corpus ID: 22774290

Spousal Breadwinning Across 30 Years of Marriage and Husbands’ Health: A Gendered Life Course Stress Approach

@article{Springer2019SpousalBA,
  title={Spousal Breadwinning Across 30 Years of Marriage and Husbands’ Health: A Gendered Life Course Stress Approach},
  author={K. Springer and C. Lee and D. Carr},
  journal={Journal of Aging and Health},
  year={2019},
  volume={31},
  pages={37 - 66}
}

K. Springer, C. Lee, D. Carr

Published 2019

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of Aging and Health

Objective: Wives increasingly outearn their husbands, and gender relations theory suggests this arrangement may undermine men’s well-being. We explore how long-term histories of spousal breadwinning may be associated with older men’s self-rated mental and physical health, and risk of nine health diagnoses. Method: Using 30 years of couple-level income data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 1,095 couples), we use latent class analyses to identify six classes that differ with respect to… CONTINUE READING

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