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Deconstructing European poverty measures : what relative and absolute scales measure

Burkhauser, Richard V. - In: Journal of policy analysis and management : the journal … 28 (2009) 4, pp. 715-725

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Deconstructing European poverty measures

Burkhauser, Richard V. - In: Counting the poor : new thinking about European poverty …, (pp. 79-91). 2012

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Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

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Estimating trends in US income inequality using the current population survey : the importance of controlling for censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...