We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework …

-being. Using the Current Population Survey from 1989 to 2001, we consider the impact of food stamps on three measures of poverty … - the headcount, the poverty gap, and the squared poverty gap. These measures portray the incidence, depth, and severity of … poverty. We find that in comparison to the headcount measure, food stamp benefits lead to large reductions in the poverty gap …