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Universidad de Costa Rica
2008
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- Economic well-being among elderly couples in marriage and cohabitation in Mexico Gilbert Brenes Camacho Salud Mexico elderly Cohabitation In Latin America, the proportion of people in middle and late age who are cohabiting is higherthan in industrialized countries. Some scholars consider cohabitation as an incompleteinstitution, where couples fare worse in economic and social well-being compared to marriage.The papers goal is to analyze whether cohabiting couples in old age face a different economicsituation than married couples, and whether this difference is due to the fact that cohabiters mightbe a selected group from the general population . The analysis focuses on Mexican couples whereat least one of the partners was older than 49, by using the first wave of the Mexican Health andAging Survey (MHAS) 2001 dataset, and part of the 2003 second wave. After controlling forcompositional variables (related to selection into consensual unions), the paper finds nosignificant difference in net worth, change in net worth (from 2001 to 2003), and perceivedfinancial situation between married and cohabiting couples, but there is on the likelihood ofowning a house. 2008 artículo científico 1659-0201 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=44660103 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=446 Población y Salud en Mesoamérica application/pdf Universidad de Costa Rica Población y Salud en Mesoamérica (Costa Rica) Num.1 Vol.6