incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

This paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. We investigate how poverty rates and poverty … different income and consumption measures of poverty, and consider explanations for the differences in trends. We document sharp … differences, particularly in recent years, between different income poverty measures, and between income and consumption poverty …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …

well-being in place of measures based on current money income docs change conclusions concerning the extent of poverty in … the United Stales. Using the official federal poverty thresholds. we find that the overall consumption poverty rate was … three percentage points below the income poverty rate in 1988. Comparisons of the poverty rates of the elderly and the non …

intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption …

Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty … a poverty measure's predictive validity and excluding assets exacerbates this bias, since assets fund MOOP …The SPM is based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it …