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Working Paper
Poverty Dynamics in the 2014 SIPP
This paper examines trends in poverty using the redesigned Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2014 Panel


Working Paper
Changes in Offer and Take-up of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
Poster presented at the 2016 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) conference.


Working Paper
Anchored and Relative: Supplemental Thresholds for the SPM
This paper develops a series of anchored and relative thresholds and explores the impact of these alternatives on SPM poverty rates from 2009-2016.


Working Paper
Using SNAP Administrative Records to Evaluate Poverty Measurement
In this paper, we link state SNAP administrative records to the CPS ASEC to examine two main outcomes related to poverty measurement.


Working Paper
A Multidimensional Poverty Measure using the American Community Survey
This paper uses the American Community Survey to create a multidimensional measure of poverty.


Working Paper
Item Response Rates for Composite Variables
This paper proposes three new methods for aggregating data on response rates across questions to create a measure of item response for composite variables.


Working Paper
Measuring the Dollar Value of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Contribution: A Synthetic Approach
This poster shows a new model-based estimate of employer contributions to health insurance premiums in the CPS ASEC using publicly available MEPS data.


Working Paper
Parents Working Nonstandard Schedules: Who’s Burning the Midnight Oil?
This poster uses SIPP 2014, Wave 1 to analyze families in which a parent works a nonstandard schedule.


Working Paper
Multiple Partner Fertility in the US: A Demographic Portrait
Paper showing SIPP data on Multiple Partner Fertility in the United States.


Working Paper
What are Housing Assistance Support Recipients Reporting as Rent?
This paper shows research on how best to incorporate the reporting of rent from the ACS as part of the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure research.


Working Paper
Revising Poverty Assignments of Unrelated Children in the SPM Report
This paper describes a proposed revision to the assignment of “official” poverty status of unrelated individuals under age 15 in the SPM report.


Working Paper
Changes to the Household Relationship Data in the CPS
This presentation covers four changes we’ve made to the household relationship data in the CPS over the last decade.


Working Paper
Geographic Adjustments with BEA RPPs vs. ACS Median Rents: An Update
This paper compares the results of two different adjustments to the Supplemental Poverty Measure thresholds.


Working Paper
Eliminating the Public Housing Adjustment
Working paper discussing the elimination of the public housing adjustment when estimating the value of housing subsidies for the Supplemental Poverty Measure.


Working Paper
Do Older Americans Have More Income Than We Think?
This paper reassesses income and poverty statistics for the population aged 65 and over using the CPS ASEC linked to IRS and SSA administrative records.


Working Paper
Income Inequality among Regions and MSAs
This paper examines income inequality, the effect of government programs, and how these have changed over time among regions and different sizes of MSAs.


Working Paper
Evaluating Wealth Data in the Redesigned 2014 SIPP
This paper is to support the careful use of SIPP data by examining how changes to the SIPP from the 2008 panel to the 2014 panel affected wealth data quality.


Working Paper
Who Has a Second-Generation Educational Attainment Advantage?
Working Paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting April 27-29, 2017.


Working Paper
Health Conditions and the Population with Disabilities
The Relationship Between Health Conditions and the Core Disability Question Set, Presented at the 2017 Population Association of America Meeting.


Working Paper
Historical Living Arrangements of Older Adults: 1967–2016
This study looks at changes in the living arrangements of adults 50 years or older since the 1960s.


Working Paper
Racial Identity and Fertility Outcomes among Hispanic Origin Groups
Examines whether fertility varies by reported race of Hispanic origin women & the relationship of social and demographic characteristics on recent fertility.


Working Paper
Same-Sex Married Couple Poverty Rates in the CPS
Evaluate the impact of treating same-sex married couples as one family unit in the measurement of official poverty rates.


Working Paper
Service over College
This study investigates whether military service acts a bridge to better economic outcomes for non-college degreed women who served in the Post-9/11 period.


Working Paper
A Statistical Portrait of Recent Puerto Rican Migration
This analysis specifically addresses the social and economic changes in Puerto Rico’s population between 2005 and 2015.


Working Paper
Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Small Area Estimates
This work shows how ACS 5-year estimates of health insurance coverage compare with single-year modeled estimates from SAHIE during a period of rapid change.


Working Paper
Improving Measurement of Same-Sex Couple Households in Census Surveys
This paper presents results from recent testing of the revised relationship question.


Working Paper
Mapping the Transition to Adulthood
A visual summary of the transition to adulthood, showing the living situation, marriage, enrollment, and employment of the population aged 16 to 34.


Working Paper
Measuring Poverty using Alternative Family Assignments: 2006 - 2015
Impact on official poverty rates of incorporating all parents and their children in the same family for the purposes of determining poverty status.


Working Paper
Multiple Partner Fertility in the US: A Demographic Portrait
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in April 2017.


Working Paper
Shared and Non-Shared Fertility Among Empty Nesters
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in April 2017.


Working Paper
Using State-Level SNAP Records to Evaluate Supplemental Poverty
This poster examines the effect of using administrative records instead of self-reported data on estimating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).


Working Paper
Does Encouraging Record Use for Financial Assets Improve Data Accuracy
This paper compares interest, dividend, and rental income in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to administrative IRS 1040 tax data.


Working Paper
How did the questionnaire change affect health insurance estimates?
In 2016, the Census Bureau fielded a Split-Panel test of the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).


Working Paper
The Geographic Distribution of Wealth in the United States
This paper presents preliminary estimates of wealth and wealth inequality at sub-national geographies.


Working Paper
50 Years of Living Without Children: Who and What has Changed
Using CPS ASEC data we examine the demographic changes of persons living without children from 1967-2016.


Working Paper
College Enrollment Before, During and After the Great Recession
This research examines the components of change in college enrollment before during and after the Great Recession.

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