Artificially Creating Poverty
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چکیده
The economic well-being of female-headed households is a growing public concern. While marital disruption undoubtedly precipitates major changes in household relationships and income sources, we show that its role in increasing poverty, especially in the short term, is seriously overstated by traditional data-collection methods. Using longitudinal data which allow us to follow women as wives and widows, we find that the income of husbands is systematically excluded from the income reported by women widowed during or after the income reference year. This exclusion not only exaggerates the rise in poverty immediately following widowhood, and hence distorts the total number of such widows in poverty at a moment in time, but it also overstates the percentage of widows who exit from poverty in the next period. Marital Disruption and Poverty: The Role of Survey Procedures in Artificially Creating Poverty
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