Hansen, Mary Eschelbach; McKinnon Miller, Michelle - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 38 (2020) 1, pp. 1-37
Little is known about women’s use of consumer bankruptcy in the US before 1980. We use new data from Maryland to show that women who petitioned for bankruptcy without a spouse were twice as common in the 1970s as they were in the 1950s and 1960s. We explore the extent to which the growing...
