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poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …
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The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...
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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 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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crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita … percent below that of non-defaulting peers after a decade. Based on the trajectory of the health, nutrition, and poverty … indicators we study, we assess that the social costs of sovereign default are significant, broad-based, and long-lived …
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We propose a novel Bayesian Graded Response Model (BGRM) for food security measurement. Our BGRM has several attractive features. It produces continuous food security estimates and measures of estimation uncertainty at the household level. Unlike the USDA's official measurement model, the BGRM...
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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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, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise substantially. Despite this, we find no decline in a wide range of …
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wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …
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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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