Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows
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Copyright 1996
ISBN 0226361004
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Copy CitationMichael D. Hurd and David A. Wise, The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan (University of Chicago Press, 1996), chap. 13, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economic-effects-aging-united-states-and-japan/changing-social-security-survivorship-benefits-and-poverty-widows.
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The paper considers the effect on widows' poverty of changes in Social Security survivorship benefits, by a reduction...
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