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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 … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759811
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Tall But Poor : Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland
Nicholas, S.; Steckel, Richard H. - 2021
This paper uses height data recorded on Convict Indents to study temporal patterns and regional differences in living standards in pre-famine Ireland. The approach is explicitly comparative and makes use of information from America and other parts of Europe. The Irish attained roughly the 16th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216523
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078194
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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica C1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
living, particularly for its enslaved population. Our results also show that due to its extreme poverty surrounding extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946034
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - 2010
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have experienced relatively larger increases in cost of living, because they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758329
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Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being after Welfare Reform
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2021
This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237960
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Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Nationally Representative Consumption Data
Meyer, Bruce; Murphy, Connacher; Sullivan, James X. - 2022
We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019 through the end of 2020 using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This is the first work to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic well-being using nationally representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295152
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The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being
Blinder, Alan S. - 2021
This paper summarizes and critically evaluates what is known about postwar trends in both the level and distribution of economic well-being. Although certain non-income aspects of well-being are considered, the primary focus is on the level and inequality of income. Considerable attention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230218
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Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor?
Aisbett, Emma - 2014
dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065371
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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065640