For decades, policymakers have discussed how to remedy the high poverty rates of older widows. Yet older divorced women … larger share of retired women will be divorced. This article uses the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the … Near Term (version 6) to project the retirement resources and well-being of divorced women. We find that Social Security …

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 …

number of children and marital status were associated with women's household retirement savings at young and mid … retirement account wealth. Results from regression analyses revealed variation in women's household financial preparation for … women's economic status …

Blacks, Hispanics, and divorced women have historically experienced double-digit poverty rates in retirement, and … might expect an increase in the proportion of economically vulnerable divorced women in the future. This article uses the … experience, Social Security benefit status, and economic well-being of future divorced women at age 70 by race and ethnicity …

We analyse the effects of pension reforms on the planned retirement age of women by exploiting within country variation … pension regime on retirement decisions is affected by the presence of gaps in careers of women. Binding constraints related to … eligibility to pensions indeed reduce the responsiveness of women to changes in pension rules. This explains why, contrary to a …

This policy brief is designed to raise awareness of the current and future economic circumstances of older women, and … the long-run financial deficit, but it will also greatly reduce the future poverty status of older women, particularly …, but not divorced; where fathers worked in industrial settings; and where both men and women had much shorter life …

This article reviews the economic literature on the work and retirement decisions of older women. Economic studies … generally find that married women respond to the financial reward for work (for example, wages) in making their work and … Security benefits). Unmarried women are found to respond to all types of financial variables. Most economic studies find that …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both …