Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300450 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1045
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
This inquiry examines the role of federal policy in gender inequality using the principles of institutional adjustment (Foster 1981; Bush 1987) in the context of the Veblenian dichotomy of habit formation. Specifically, the authors assert that Social Security, though exclusive at its inception in 1935, has undergone significant institutional adjustment. Today, Social Security plays a determining role in providing the appropriate institutional space for not only increasing economic security for older women, but also for reducing gender inequality overall.
Subjects: 
gender disparities
Social Security
evolutionary policy analysis
economic security
retirement
JEL: 
B25
B5
I38
J1
N3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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