Income, Poverty, and Material Hardship Among Older Americans

Helen Levy

doi:10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.04

Article Information

vol. 1 no. 1 55-77

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.04

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online November 1, 2015.

Copyright © 2015 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. I gratefully acknowledge helpful suggestions from Sanders Korenman, from Dean Lillard, from workshop participants at the Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, and from participants in the Russell Sage Foundation “Severe Deprivation in America” conference. The Health and Retirement Study is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (grant number NIA U01AG009740) and is conducted by the University of Michigan. I acknowledge financial support from the National Institute on Aging (grant number NIA K01AG034232). This project was also supported by a grant from the Social Security Administration through the Michigan Retirement Research Center. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of the Social Security Administration, any agency of the federal government, or the Michigan Retirement Research Center. Direct correspondence to: Helen Levy at hlevy@umich.edu, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.