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Author: Choudhury, Sharmila
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Choudhury, Sharmila |
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Why Are So Many Older Women Poor? Late-Life Events or Life-Long Circumstances? Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Event History; Income; Life Cycle Research; Poverty; Widows Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper analyzes the circumstances that explain the large numbers of aged women in poverty. Previous research has found that advanced age, widowhood, and living alone are important determinants of aged poverty. Central to many of these explanations is the view that older women become poor due to particular events that occur in old age. However, many women who encounter these events never experience poverty. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, this paper examines the nature,incidence, and length of poverty spells of women as they age in order to understand the precursors of late-life poverty. The results indicate the extent to which aged poverty is an extension of early-life poverty conditions rather than a consequence of late-life negative shocks to income. Emphasis is placed on the identification of early-life predictors of poverty in old age and in determining which women are particularly at risk. |
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Choudhury, Sharmila. "Why Are So Many Older Women Poor? Late-Life Events or Life-Long Circumstances?" Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |
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Choudhury, Sharmila Leonesio, Michael V. |
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Life-Cycle Aspects of Poverty Among Older Women Social Security Bulletin 60,2 (Summer 1997): 17-36. Also: ORES Working Paper Series Number 71, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Social Security Administration, April 1997. Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Social Security Administration Keyword(s): Economic Well-Being; Economics of Gender; Life Cycle Research; Poverty; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper we focus on the relationship between a woman's economic status earlier in life and her poverty status in old age. Previous research on the determinants of poverty among aged women has documented the socioeconomic and demographic correlates of the poor, and has examined the financial impact of adverse late-life events such as widowhood, deterioration of health, and loss of employment. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, we find that most women who experience these types of adverse events in their later years do not become poor and that a large majority of older NLSMW respondents who were poor in 1991-2 were poor earlier in their adult lives. Whether women are impoverished by adverse late-life events depends on their economic resources just prior to the event. But, the financial resources available in old age, in turn, depend very much on their long-term economic status throughout much of their adult lives. This article under scores the fact that for most older women these adverse events do not appear to precipitate poverty spells -- at least not within the first couple of years -- and directs attention at longer term circumstances that make some women more vulnerable. |
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Bibliography Citation
Choudhury, Sharmila and Michael V. Leonesio. "Life-Cycle Aspects of Poverty Among Older Women." Social Security Bulletin 60,2 (Summer 1997): 17-36.
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