we examine include employment, hours, earnings, income and consumption. We have five main findings. First, disability … disability condition have seen their earnings decline by 61%, income by 46%, food plus housing consumption by 25%, and food …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understate the income of poor households, as conjectured in past work by one of the authors. Underreporting in the survey data … making it seem that welfare programs are less targeted to both the very poorest and middle income households than they are …

This paper examines income and consumption based measures of poverty for those 65 and over between 1972 and 2004. This …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … mothers. Our earlier work did not show that income and consumption differ in practice. Here we further examine data quality … issues and show that important conclusions about recent trends depend on whether one uses consumption or income. Changes in …

We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by … the potential of linked data by showing how using linked administrative variables improves the measurement of income and …