Poverty Transitions among Elderly Widows Book

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Policy Background	11
Ch. 3	Literature Review and Significance of the Research	19
Ch. 4	Data and Problems of Measurements	27
Ch. 5	Income Changes at the Time of the Spouse's Death	33
Ch. 6	Factors Explaining the Movements Out of Poverty	75
Ch. 7	The Relative Effects of Each Income Source's Increase on the Total Increase at the Time of Exit From Poverty	97
Ch. 8	Summary and Conclusions	117
	References	127
	Appendix A. Formulas for Computing PIA from AIME	139
	Appendix B. Age Ranges and Age Combinations of Husbands and Wives at the Time of Spouses' Death	141
	Index	147