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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor

Eli, Shari - 2015

patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …

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Rethinking Elderly Poverty : Time for a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure?

Korenman, Sanders - 2014

Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty Measure (OPM), a result of the SPM subtraction of medical out-of-pocket (MOOP) expenditures from income. Neither the SPM nor OPM counts health benefits or assets as resources....

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Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010

This paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. We investigate how poverty rates and poverty gaps have changed over time, explore how these trends differ across family types, contrast these trends for several different income and consumption measures of poverty, and...

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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...

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Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2014

Individuals that consume different baskets of goods are differentially affected by relative price changes caused by international trade. We develop a methodology to measure the unequal gains from trade across consumers within countries. The approach requires data on aggregate expenditures and...

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Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2021

We evaluate consumption and income measures of the material well-being of the poor. We begin with conceptual and pragmatic reasons that favor income or consumption. Then, we empirically examine the quality of standard data by studying measurement error and under-reporting, and by comparing...

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Rising Inequality? Changes in the Distribution of Income and Consumption in the 1980s

Cutler, David M.; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2022

This paper examines changes in the distribution of income and consumption in the United States during the 1980s. using data from the Current Population Survey (income) and Consumer Expenditure Survey (consumption). We reach three primary conclusions. First. changes in the distribution of...

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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor

Bessone, Pedro; Rao, Gautam; Schilbach, Frank; … - 2021

actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on …

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