of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I …Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

This paper proposes a method of measuring chronic and transitory poverty based on any additively-decomposable index of … aggregate poverty. Chronic poverty and transitory poverty in the United States are measured using data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics (1987 interviewing year). In an attempt to identify the most impoverished subpopulations, poverty indices are …