AT WHAT COST A ROOM OF HER OWN - FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY AMONG PRIME-AGE WOMEN, 1939-1959
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
BARRINGTON, L; CONRAD, CA
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0507
DOI：
10.1017/S0022050700014510
发表日期：
1994
页码：
342-357
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摘要：
This article investigates the feminization of poverty prior to 1960 by focusing on three factors that contributed to the increase in the propensity to form female-headed households and to the poverty rate among such households. Compared with 1939, households headed by prime-age women in 1959 included fewer adults, thereby reducing earnings potential. The earnings level at which such women formed independent households was lower relative to the poverty line; and although higher earnings allowed more women to form independent households, the increase was not large enough to lift some of these households out of poverty.