Abstract
ABSTRACT This study investigates to what extent a working wife helped her family escape poverty and how this function developed during the great recession, based on analyses using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data. I use an extension of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition framework that decomposes the working wife’s effect on the proportion of families below poverty. I found that wife’s earnings reduced the average family poverty level by around 10 percentage points during the great recession but by over 30 percentage points for families with unemployed husbands.
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