| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25907 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25907 |
| The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States | |
| Bruce D. Meyer; Derek Wu; Victoria R. Mooers; Carla Medalia | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-06-03 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and Current Population Survey, the sources of recent extreme poverty estimates, to administrative tax and program data. Of the 3.6 million non-homeless households with survey-reported cash income below $2/person/day, we find that more than 90% are not in extreme poverty once we include in-kind transfers, replace survey reports of earnings and transfer receipt with administrative records, and account for the ownership of substantial assets. More than half of all misclassified households have incomes from the administrative data above the poverty line, and several of the largest misclassified groups appear to be at least middle class based on measures of material well-being. In contrast, the households kept from extreme poverty by in-kind transfers appear to be among the most materially deprived Americans. Nearly 80% of all misclassified households are initially categorized as extreme poor due to errors or omissions in reports of cash income. Of the households remaining in extreme poverty, 90% consist of a single individual. An implication of the low recent extreme poverty rate is that it cannot be substantially higher now due to welfare reform, as many commentators have claimed. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Data Collection ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25907 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583581 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bruce D. Meyer,Derek Wu,Victoria R. Mooers,et al. The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States. 2019. |
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