The US rural poverty rate has been consistently higher than the urban rate for several decades. One question might be …. Using annual 1985-2015 data and regressing both poverty rates on the national unemployment rate and the Gini coefficient …

.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …

This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in the United States and identifies patterns and … first part introduces multidimensional poverty and provides a rationale for viewing poverty through a lens of multiple … deprivations. It discusses how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) compares to more narrowly-focused, income-based poverty …

1. Poverty and Deprivation in America -- 2. A Survey of Related Literature -- 3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty … -- 4. A Profile of the Multidimensionally Poor in America -- 5. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Demographic … Cohorts -- 6. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Geographic Locales -- 7. Identifying the Determinants of …