Carlson, Marcia; Danziger, Sheldon - In: Review of Income and Wealth 45 (1999) 2, pp. 179-91
The authors use 1990 U.S. Census of Population data to calculate what poverty rates would have been if cohabitors were treated in the same manner as married couples. They find that the official treatment of cohabiting partners as separate family units overstated the extent of poverty in 1989...