amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a …

prevalence of certain risks than by the poverty penaltyattached to the risks. Focusing on single motherhood as a poverty risk, it … motherhood accounts to a similar degree to the prevalences of single motherhood for variation in poverty rates in rich countries …Recent analysis has suggested that poverty rates, and their variation across rich countries, is driven much less by the …

While American poverty research has devoted greater attention to poverty in the Northeast and Midwest, poverty has been … persistently higher in the U.S. South than other regions. Thus, this study investigates the enduring question of why poverty is … poverty, and (2) binary decomposition of the South/Non-South poverty gap. The comparison of means associated with the power …

This paper aims to relate the issue of the Motherhood Wage Penalty to the institutional framework "Varieties of …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …