This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …

lowering future benefits. We explore the consequences, for older women, of eliminating the RET from the Full Retirement Age to … women in their mid-70s and older – ages at which the lower benefits from claiming earlier could outweigh higher income in … the earlier period when women or their husbands increased their labor supply …

I show that the trend towards single households among older nonmarried women, the majority of whom were widows, has … the fraction of older nonmarried women living with relatives from 1950 to 1990 can be attributed to rising Social Security …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

We provide an overview of research that indicates that older women face unique challenges and opportunities with …, showing that poverty increases with age for women due to older women often outliving their spouses and becoming widowed. We … discuss research that shows that women benefit more than men from working longer. We then note that older women face …