| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| Levels and changes in income poverty, consumption poverty, and material well-being: A response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018) | |
| Bruce D. Meyer; James X. Sullivan | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-09-12 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Abstract This comment responds to Shaefer and Rivera (2018), a recent working paper that criticizes some of our published work on trends in income and consumption based poverty measures in the United States (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003, 2011a,b, 2012a,b, 2017). Shaefer and Rivera suggest that income poverty does a better job of reflecting the material circumstances of those at the bottom, basing this conclusion on three main claims: that 1) short term changes in income poverty are more closely associated with changes in other measures of well-being than are short-term changes in consumption poverty; 2) the long-run trends for income poverty align more closely with the longrun trends for other measures of well-being than do the trends for consumption poverty; and 3) the level of poverty indicated by consumption measures is unreasonably low as compared to other indicators of well-being. We show that the evidence presented in Shaefer and Rivera is misleading and incomplete. Their main evidence suffers from a problem commonly called spurious correlation or spurious regression. Simple corrections for this bias tend to reverse their key findings. Moreover, they support their arguments using a few select pieces of evidence—the broader evidence including large literatures run counter to their conclusions. A more comprehensive examination of the evidence supports the conclusion that consumption-based measures of poverty more accurately reflect the economic circumstances of those with few resources, both at a point in time and over time. Read the full PDF here. |
| 主题 | Economics ; Poverty Studies |
| 标签 | consumption ; Poverty |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/levels-and-changes-in-income-poverty-consumption-poverty-and-material-well-being-a-response-to-shaefer-and-rivera-2018/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/207390 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bruce D. Meyer,James X. Sullivan. Levels and changes in income poverty, consumption poverty, and material well-being: A response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018). 2018. |
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