Hurd, Michael D.; Wise, David A. - 2021
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 …
