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What do we Really Know about Food Security?

Cafiero, Carlo - 2013

Many discussions following the 2007/08 food price crisis have revolved around the magnitude of the negative impacts that it may have had on food security worldwide. Analysts have been asked to provide timely assessments, often based on partial data and information. The variety of opinions and...

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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in The US, 1980-2010

Attanasio, Orazio - 2012

In this paper, we use a variety of different techniques to overcome the measurement error problems with the CE. First …, we use data from the diary component of the CE, focusing on categories where measurement error has been found to be less … component that is considered to be measured well. Third, we try to account directly for the non-classical measurement error of …

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Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data : The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using the Census Bureau's internal March Current Population Surveys (CPS) file, we construct and make available variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure that allows researchers with access only to the public-use...

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Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey : The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975-2004). We find that the upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 significantly slowed thereafter once we control for top coding in the public use data and censoring in...

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Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes

Diewert, W. Erwin - 2008

Statistical offices try to match item models when measuring inflation between two periods. However, for product areas with a high turnover of differentiated models, the use of hedonic indexes is more appropriate since they include the prices and quantities of unmatched new and old models. The...

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Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

Larrimore, Jeff - 2008

Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also...

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Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows

Davis, Steven J. - 1995

We combine information from several different studies and data sets to assemble a fuller, more accurate picture of job flows and worker flows in U.S. labor markets. Our picture characterizes the magnitudes of job and worker flows, the connections between them, their cyclical behavior,...

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Improving the Accuracy of Economic Measurement with Multiple Data Sources : The Case of Payroll Employment Data

Cajner, Tomaz - 2019

-time measurement of the labor market. The sources are the Current Employment Statistics (CES) from BLS and microdata from the payroll …-sized samples. We argue that combining CES and ADP data series reduces the measurement error inherent in both data sources. In …

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Sufficient Statistics for Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare

Baqaee, David; Burstein, Ariel T.; Koike-Mori, Yasutaka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We provide a method to measure welfare, in money-metric terms, taking into account expectations about the future. Our two key assumptions are that (1) the expenditure function is separable between the present and the future, and (2) there are some households that do not face idiosyncratic...

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Banks' Risk Exposures

Begenau, Juliane - 2015

This paper studies U.S. banks' exposure to interest rate and credit risk. We exploit the factor structure in interest rates to represent many bank positions in terms of simple factor portfolios. This approach delivers time varying measures of exposure that are comparable across banks as well as...

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