analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understate the income of poor households, as conjectured in past work by one of the authors. Underreporting in the survey data … making it seem that welfare programs are less targeted to both the very poorest and middle income households than they are …

This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

disability and its association with a wide range of outcomes, including earnings, income, and consumption. We then employ some of … decline in after-tax income, a 24 percent decline in food and housing consumption and a 22 percent decline in food consumption …