Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) on the incidence of single motherhood and headship for young women. A contribution of the …

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 …

amplify and propagate a macroeconomic shock. We focus on the U.S. Great Recession of 2007-2009 and proceed in two steps. First … an aggregate shock, and it does so if the distribution features a sufficiently large fraction of households with very …