This paper is the first to examine changes in poverty over time using a comprehensive set of linked survey and … Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID), we correct for measurement error in survey-reported incomes, focusing … on single parent families from 1995 to 2016. Our preferred estimates indicate that single parent family poverty declined …

The paper considers the effect on widows' poverty of changes in Social Security survivorship benefits, by a reduction …, for example, would reduce the 1989 poverty rate of widows aged 65 to 69 by about twenty-four percent, from 0.25 to 0 ….19. The poverty rate of couples would be increased by about thirty-three percent, from about 0.06 to about 0.08 …

I estimate the fraction of widows that will be in poverty by projecting the economic status, as measured in 1979, of a … consumption-based measure of poverty status that, I believe, is more appropriate for the elderly than the usual income …-based measure. According to the projections, the fraction of widows in poverty should not increase substantially as the 1979 cohort …

micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully exploits the longitudinal dimension of the underlying datasets …