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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data

Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this population for the United States has historically been...

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Effects of the Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Young Adults on Material Wellbeing

Lee, Jiwan; Michelmore, Katherine; Pilkauskas, Natasha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In 2021, the U.S. Congress temporarily expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers without a qualifying child (childless EITC), to help counteract the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-wage working adults. This expansion roughly tripled the maximum benefits for qualifying filers and...

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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data

Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...

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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities

Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...

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Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

groups than the survey data suggest, through higher program receipt and greater poverty reduction. These biases in survey …

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Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2006

using historical examples from the U.S. South, Latin America and Liberia …

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The Initial Effects of the Expanded Child Tax Credit on Material Hardship

Parolin, Zachary; Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Collyer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The transformation of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) into a more generous, inclusive monthly payment marks a historic (temporary) shift in U.S. treatment of low-income families. To investigate the initial impact of these payments, we apply a series of difference-in-difference estimates using Census...

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The Supplemental Poverty Measure : A New Method for Measuring Poverty

Fitzgerald, John; Moffitt, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on … the minimum bundle necessary to meet basic needs. Our measure differs from conventional income and consumption poverty in … both concept and measurement and it has advantages relative to both. Poverty rates using our basic measure are very close …

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The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single Parent Families

Corinth, Kevin; Meyer, Bruce D.; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper is the first to examine changes in poverty over time using a comprehensive set of linked survey and … Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID), we correct for measurement error in survey-reported incomes, focusing … on single parent families from 1995 to 2016. Our preferred estimates indicate that single parent family poverty declined …

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