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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families

  • David Card
  • Rebecca M. Blank
American Economic Review
vol. 98, no. 2, May 2008
(pp. 387–91)
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Citation

Card, David, and Rebecca M. Blank. 2008. "The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families." American Economic Review 98 (2): 387–91. DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.2.387

JEL Classification

  • I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
  • J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination