Old-Age Poverty: Single Women & Widows & A Lack of Retirement Security
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Download full text from publisher
References listed on IDEAS
- Melissa M. Favreault & C. Eugene Steuerle, 2007. "Social Security Spouse and Survivor Benefits for the Modern Family," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2007-07, Center for Retirement Research, revised Feb 2007.
- Kathleen McGarry & Robert F. Schoeni, 2005. "Widow(er) Poverty and Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures Near the End of Life," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 60(3), pages 160-168.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Wei Sun & Teresa Ghilarducci & Michael Papadopoulos & Anthony Webb, 2019. "The Impact of a Social Security Proposal for "Catch-Up" Contributions," SCEPA working paper series. 2019-03, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School.
- Alicia H. Munnell & Geoffrey Sanzenbacher & Alice Zulkarnain, 2020. "What Factors Explain the Decline in Widowed Women’s Poverty?," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 57(5), pages 1881-1902, October.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Irena Dushi & Leora Friedberg & Anthony Webb, 2021.
"Is the Adjustment of Social Security Benefits Actuarially Fair, and If So, for Whom?,"
SCEPA working paper series.
2021-04, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School.
- Irena Dushi & Leora Friedberg & Anthony Webb, 2021. "Is the Adjustment of Social Security Benefits Actuarially Fair, and If So, for Whom?," Working Papers wp421, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
- Nicholas, Lauren Hersch & Baum, Micah Y., 2020. "Wills, public policy, and financial well-being among surviving spouses," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 16(C).
- Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Vermeulen, Frederic, 2012.
"Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: An analysis based on a collective consumption model,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(6), pages 985-1000.
- Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Frederic Vermeulen, 2008. "Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model," Working Papers ECARES 2008-026, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
- Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Frederic Vermeulen, 2012. "Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/131702, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
- Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Vermeulen, Frederic, 2008. "Economic Well-Being and Poverty among the Elderly: An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model," IZA Discussion Papers 3349, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Frederik Vermeulen, 2008. "Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0807, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
- Cherchye, L.J.H. & de Rock, B. & Vermeulen, F.M.P., 2008. "Economic Well-Being and Poverty Among the Elderly : An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model," Discussion Paper 2008-15, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
- Cherchye, L.J.H. & de Rock, B. & Vermeulen, F.M.P., 2008. "Economic Well-Being and Poverty Among the Elderly : An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model," Other publications TiSEM 4995f609-6c09-4d63-ba56-2, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
- Alicia H. Munnell & Geoffrey Sanzenbacher & Alice Zulkarnain, 2020. "What Factors Explain the Decline in Widowed Women’s Poverty?," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 57(5), pages 1881-1902, October.
- Cetin, Sefane & Jousten, Alain, 2022.
"Retirement Decision of Belgian Couples and the Impact of the Social Security System,"
LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE
2022024, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
- Cetin, Sefane & Jousten, Alain, 2023. "Retirement Decision of Belgian Couples and the Impact of the Social Security System," IZA Discussion Papers 16470, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Wei Sun & Teresa Ghilarducci & Michael Papadopoulos & Anthony Webb, 2019. "The Impact of a Social Security Proposal for "Catch-Up" Contributions," SCEPA working paper series. 2019-03, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School.
- Owen Davis & Siavash Radpour, 2021. "Older Workers' Wages Are Growing - But Not Fast Enough," SCEPA publication series. 2021-04, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School.
- Das, Debasmita, 2022. "Child-rearing, Social Security and Married Women’s Labor Supply over the Life Cycle," MPRA Paper 117614, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 10 Sep 2022.
- Rosalind Bell-Aldeghi & Nicolas Sirven & Morgane Guern & Christine Sevilla-Dedieu, 2022. "One last effort. Are high out-of-pocket payments at the end of life a fatality?," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 23(5), pages 879-891, July.
- Streeter, Jialu L., 2020. "Gender differences in widowhood in the short-run and long-run: Financial, emotional, and mental wellbeing," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 17(C).
- Beata Zmyslona & Agnieszka Marciniuk, 2020. "Financial Protection for the Elderly - Contracts Based on Equity Release and Critical Health Insurance," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(Special 1), pages 867-882.
- Gopi Shah Goda & John Shoven & Sita Nataraj Slavov, "undated".
"Social Security and the Timing of Divorce,"
Discussion Papers
08-057, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
- Gopi Shah Goda & John B. Shoven & Sita Nataraj Slavov, 2007. "Social Security and the Timing of Divorce," NBER Working Papers 13382, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Kathleen Krier, 2013. "Sustainable Social Security," Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(3), pages 74-92.
- ROSSI Cristina & SIERMINSKA Eva, 2015. "Single again? Saving patterns when widowhood occurs," LISER Working Paper Series 2015-04, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
More about this item
Keywords
Retirement; Women; Widows; Poverty; Older workers; Earnings; Pensions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
- J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2020-08-24 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-MAC-2020-08-24 (Macroeconomics)
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:epa:cepapn:2018-06. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Bridget Fisher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cenewus.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.