Tag: widowhood
The brief’s key findings are: Since the mid-1990s, the poverty rate for widows has dropped sharply. Potential reasons include rising levels of education and work experience for women generally and a higher marriage rate among women with more education. The findings show that, so far, the drop in widows’ poverty has primarily been driven by…
Risks appear manageable to most today, but adverse impacts will increase in the future. My colleagues just published a review of recent research on the impact of three risks that households face at older ages. These late-life risks include: 1) high out-of-pocket medical costs; 2) cognitive decline; and 3) widowhood. The takeaway from the researc…
