This paper uses Census of Population and Current Population Survey data to describe and analyze the sex-incidence of poverty in 1959, 1969, 1979, and 1984 according to a fixed standard and a standard that changes with national per capita real income. The popular view that there was a large...

This paper uses Census of Population and Current Population Survey data to describe and analyze the sex-incidence of poverty in 1959, 1969, 1979, and 1984 according to a fixed standard and a standard that changes with national per capita real income. The popular view that there was a large...

Data from the 1960, 1970, and 1980 Censuses of Population and theCurrent Population Surveys of 1980 and 1985 are used to describe and analyzethe economic position of children with special emphasis on cross-sectiondifferences and variation over time in the incidence of poverty. Between1959 and...