through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as in patrilineal kinship systems. Anthropologists hypothesized that … matrilineal kinship systems benefit women because they have greater support from their kin and husbands have less authority over …-waves, I find that matrilineal women experience less domestic violence and have greater autonomy in decision making …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …

1970s the sex mix of poverty was relatively constant, and between 1979 and 1984 women's share decreased. The trend in … poverty in 1959, 1969, 1979, and 1984 according to a fixed standard and a standard that changes with national per capita real … income. The popular view that there was a large increase in the percent of adult poor who are women and that this trend has …

and cervical cancer among uninsured women in the US: one that paid for cancer screenings with federal funds and one that … uninsured women. In contrast, funding for cancer detection significantly increased breast and cervical cancer screenings among … 40-64 year old uninsured women, with much smaller effects for insured women (who were not directly eligible). Moreover …

seems to undersave for retirement. Of particular concern is the relative position of older women, who are more vulnerable to … old-age poverty due to their longer longevity. This paper uses data from a special module we devised on planning and … financial literacy in the 2004 Health and Retirement Study. It shows that women display much lower levels of financial literacy …