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Age and Material Well-Being in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Age and Material Well-Being in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Introduction
Increasing interest has focused on new ways to measure material well-being. Traditional poverty measures have been inadequate to characterize well-being because they don’t account for many direct and indirect costs of living. Many of the most salient issues in current poverty research, such as the effects of family structure and the effects of welfare reform, are concerned with understanding how these costs come into play. This requires the use of valid well-being measures to gauge the effects of income, program and family changes.
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