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Taxes, welfare, and work by single mothers
Meyer, Bruce D. - In: NBER reporter online (2001/2002) 3, pp. 13-17
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An empirical total survey error decomposition using data combination
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolaus - 2019
, such as poverty statistics and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the extent, sources, and consequences of … New York State linked to three major household surveys to estimate the error components we define. We find that total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979179
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An empirical total survey error decomposition using data combination
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015539
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The under-reporting of transfers in household surveys : its nature and consequences
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K. C.; Sullivan, James X. - 2009
"High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic well-being and the effects of transfer programs. We provide estimates of the extent of under-reporting for ten transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824632
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The under-reporting of transfers in household surveys : its nature and consequences
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K. C.; Sullivan, James X. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867085
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The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys : Its Nature and Consequences
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2009
High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic well-being and the effects of transfer programs. We provide estimates of the extent of under-reporting for ten transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463468
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The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys : Its Nature and Consequences
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010
High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic well-being and the effects of transfer programs. We provide estimates of the extent of under-reporting for ten transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152093
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The poverty reduction of social security and means-tested transfers
Meyer, Bruce D.; Wu, Derek - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 71 (2018) 5, pp. 1106-1153
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920771
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Errors in survey reporting and imputation and their effects on estimates of food stamp program participation
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Goerge, Robert - 2018
Accurately measuring government benefit receipt in household surveys is necessary when studying disadvantaged … vary with household characteristics, implying complicated biases in multivariate analyses, such as regressions. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904135
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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income : implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2017
We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical … analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … York State to the CPS at the household level. Program receipt in the CPS is missed for over one-third of housing assistance …
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