time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey … the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …

redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …

variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …

Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high … and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income … and Program Participation and Current Population Survey, the sources of recent extreme poverty estimates, to …

inequality, work changes, and policy innovations in explaining changing poverty patterns. We find that the forces influencing …Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …

This paper documents the striking difference in U. S. and Canadian poverty trends from 1970 to 1986. While U.S. poverty … has shown no consistent trend since 1970, Canadian poverty decreased by 60%. This paper examines why U. S. and Canadian … poverty trends differed during two periods: 1970-1979 and 1979-1986. During the 1970s, we find that the principle reason for …

In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …

This paper presents new estimates of the level and persistence of poverty among U.S. households since the Great … track individuals over time and measure how tax policies affect poverty trends. Using an after-tax household income measure …, we estimate that while roughly 1 in 10 people are in poverty in any given year, over 4 in 10 people spent at least one …

place and compare them to the poverty line, manufacturing earnings and benefits, state per capita incomes in the US, as well …