Christopher, Karen; England, Paula; McLanahan, Sara; … - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2000
Women have higher poverty rates than men in almost all societies (Casper et al. 1994). In this paper, we compare modern nations on this dimension. We use the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to compare women's and men's poverty rates in eight Western industrialized countries circa the early 1990s:...