The Employment of Mothers and Prevention of Poverty
The Employment of Mothers and Prevention of Poverty
Working Paper Number: SIPP-WP-73
Introduction
Our goal in this paper is to examine empirically the role that the employment of mothers plays (and might play) in keeping (or getting) families above poverty. We use the Survey ofIncome and Program Participation (SIPP), a relatively new longitudinal data set available from the Census Bureau and consider two years of income experience for the families in the survey.
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