The Poverty of Widows: Future Prospects

Hurd, Michael D

The Poverty of Widows: Future Prospects

(308 K)

Michael D. Hurd

Chapter in NBER book The Economics of Aging (1989), David A. Wise, editor (p. 201 - 230)
Conference held March 19-22, 1987
Published in 1989 by University of Chicago Press
© 1989 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
in NBER Book Series - The Economics of Aging

This chapter first appeared as NBER working paper w2326, The Poverty of Widows: Future Prospects, Michael D. Hurd

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