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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1207–1218.
Published: 28 June 2016
... is estimated each year using a quasi-relative poverty threshold that varies over time with changes in families’ expenditures on a core basket of goods and services, this study explores trends in poverty using an absolute, or anchored, SPM threshold. We believe the anchored measure offers two advantages. First...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 345–365.
Published: 03 January 2019
... their counterparts who gave birth just a few months later. The wages for these two sets of teenage mothers are not statistically different, but with a lower likelihood of marriage and more children, the households of the treated mothers are more likely to fall below the poverty threshold. Although differences...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2337–2360.
Published: 15 October 2020
... in 2016 in both deep (increases of 48% to 93%) and extreme poverty (increases of 54% to 111%). We even find significant increases with thresholds anchored at 1993 medians. With homelessness added, deep poverty would be 7% to 8% higher and extreme poverty 19% to 23% higher in 2016, which suggests that our...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 235–248.
Published: 01 May 1989
... 1989 Labor Supply Poverty Rate Black Family Poverty Threshold Permanent Income References Becker , G. ( 1981 ). A Treatise on the Family . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press . Becketti , S. , Gould , W. , Lillard , L. , & Welch , F. ( 1988...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1479–1498.
Published: 24 July 2012
... thresholds (U.S. Census Bureau 2006 , 2007 , 2008b ). 8 Our measures of poverty differ from the official poverty measurements because we treat cohabiting partners as members of the same family. Including cohabiting partner incomes in family poverty measurements more completely accounts for the economic...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1665–1673.
Published: 01 December 2023
... measure, in which the poverty threshold is set at 50% or 60% of equivalized national median household income; or an absolute poverty measure, in which we fix the poverty threshold at the 2021 relative poverty line. In online Figure C3 , we evaluate relative U.S. poverty trends when applying...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 499–519.
Published: 01 August 2003
... (Citro and Michael 1995; Fisher 1995; Townsend 1992). For example, a common poverty threshold used in 1950 (as defined by the Congressional Subcommittee on Low-Income Families) was $2,000, which is about 70% of the current official threshold for a family of four when adjusted for inflation (Fisher 1997...
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 405–414.
Published: 01 August 1988
... of America 1988 1988 Social Security Poverty Line Poverty Status Poverty Threshold Income Change References Allison , P. D. ( 1982 ). Discrete-time methods for the analysis of event histories . In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological Methodology, 1982 (pp. 61 – 98 ). San...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2377–2381.
Published: 19 November 2020
... similar estimates in the CPS, particularly given the evidence that this adjustment has the same effect in both the CPS and the SIPP at the extreme poverty threshold. The authors also discount the relevance of Meyer et al.’s results because the results are for only a single year; Brady and Parolin...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 497–509.
Published: 01 November 1996
... event histories, we used as much information about earnings as possible. For example, if an individual was lost to nonresponse at age 23 but had not earned enough to cross any of the poverty-line thresholds before the point of nonresponse, we 500 We decided to focus on annual rather than hourly earn...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 621–631.
Published: 01 November 1986
... in 1970. Although her husband was alive during the entire 1970reference year, his income will not be reported. The widow could be counted as poor in 1970, even though the income received by her husband and her in that year was above the official poverty threshold. 621 622 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 23, number 4...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2065–2088.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as NPov and NAff , 3 accounts for the entry and exit of individuals from the poor or nonpoor populations through the changing ratio of household income to the poverty threshold among the constant population (i.e., those present in the region at the start and end of the period). The poverty balancing...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2369–2376.
Published: 15 October 2020
... that reinforce our conclusions. We reaffirm that the best approach to analyzing deep/extreme poverty is to conduct open science, report a range of estimates under a variety of transparent assumptions, follow prevailing international standards in income and poverty measurement, and use justifiable thresholds...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 729–749.
Published: 06 June 2015
...). After calculating each family’s income, I will classify their degree of disadvantage by the relation of their income to the official U.S. government poverty threshold for their family size, putting families into one of four groups: private income less than 50 % of the poverty threshold (referred...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 779–797.
Published: 24 March 2020
.... 2018 ; Hokayem and Heggeness 2014a ). An excellent review of the literature in the area can be found in Cellini et al. ( 2008 ). The official poverty thresholds, updated annually by the U.S. Census Bureau, are designed to reflect the minimum level of resources needed to meet the basic requirements...
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 323–338.
Published: 01 August 2000
... times the income needed by a family to maintain the least costly nutritionally adequate diet. Be- cause food expenditures are tied to the number and ages of family members, 48 income (i.e., poverty) thresholds have been established for families of various sizes and various numbers of related children...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1271–1296.
Published: 23 July 2020
..., income-to-needs , follows the official poverty measure. It is constructed as the ratio of pretax money income from all household members related by birth or marriage to the official poverty threshold, provided by SIPP. A value of 1.5, for example, indicates monthly income at 150% of the federal poverty...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 629–648.
Published: 01 November 2004
...? Or Both? Current Population Reports . ( 1998 ). Washington, DC : U.S. Census Bureau . Fertility of American Women. Current Population Reports . ( 2000 ). Washington, DC : U.S. Census Bureau . U.S. Census Bureau. 2002. “Poverty Thresholds in 2000.” Available on-line at http://www.census.gov/hhes...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 699–721.
Published: 21 April 2016
... became more crowded (Eggers and Moumen 2013 ; Ellen and Dastrup 2012 ). Overall, the change in the rate of crowding for the U.S. population as a whole from 2008 to 2010 was 1.14 percentage points. Among those living below 50 % of the poverty threshold, the change was 3.30 percentage points; the change...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 August 1995
... are the poverty rate and the Gini coefficient of family income. The poverty rate is measured by determining the number of persons who are unrelated individuals or members of families with cash incomes below the official poverty thresholds. These thresholds in tum are estimates of the incomes necessary...
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