Women's labor force participation and earnings dramatically increased after World War II. Those changes have important … implications for women's Social Security benefits. This article uses the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the …

This paper seeks to determine the impact of the changing lives of women – increased labor force participation …/earnings and reduced marriage rates – on Social Security replacement rates. First, our estimates, based on the Health and … tercile. Decomposing the reasons for the overall decline shows that increases in the labor supply and earnings of women …