mothers' economic well-being. Using 25-years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1990 to … affect economic outcomes, I show that previously married mothers face larger income penalties than those who were single when … highlight the importance of reducing gender inequalities in the labor market for improving single mothers' economic well-being. …

amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … market activity affect child poverty generally in the expected way. Taking advantage of the longitudinal data at the country …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …