The Poverty of Widows: Future Prospects

Michael D. Hurd
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Copyright 1989
ISBN 0226902951
Book: The Economics of Aging
Book editor: David A. Wise
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: The Economics of Aging
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  • Michael D. Hurd, The Economics of Aging (University of Chicago Press, 1989), chap. 7, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economics-aging/poverty-widows-future-prospects.

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