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Income & Poverty Working Papers
Income & Poverty Working Papers
Working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics. They have not undergone a review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications.
View the list of working paper topics.
View the list of working papers by year.
Working Paper
Children and Welfare: Patterns of Multiple Program Participation
There are two significant gaps in our understanding of welfare recipiency limiting the ability of policymakers to make the necessary choices in program design.
Working Paper
Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation & Labor Supply
We examine the effect of the Medicaid program on the labor supply and welfare participation decisions of female heads of family.
Working Paper
The Saving Effect of Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) rapidly became a very popular form of saving after they became available to all employees in 1982.
Working Paper
The Saving Effect of Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) rapidly became a very popular form of saving after they became available to all employees in 1982.
Working Paper
The Seam Effect In Panel Surveys
More month-to-month changes occur in recipiency of income type when the data are collected in different waves than when the data are collected in the same wave.
Working Paper
SIPP Record Check Results
Reports the results of a record check study for the SIPP. The study covers 8 months of reported participation in 8 programs for the SIPP sample in 4 states.
Working Paper
Aging and the Income Value of Housing Wealth
This paper analyzes the extent to which housing equity could change the consumption of the elderly, if housing equity were converted to a more liquid form.
Working Paper
Childcare Effects on Social Security Benefits (91 ARC)
Time out of the labor force can reduce substantially the size of the caregiver's resultant social security and pension benefits in old age.
Working Paper
The Elderly and Their Sources Of Income
Transfer payments and property income have become large sources of income and are particularly important to the elderly.
Working Paper
Wages and Employment Among the Working Poor: New Evidence from SIPP
Uses the detailed labor force information available from the SIPP to examine wages, employment patterns, and sources of income among the working poor.
Working Paper
Welfare Participation and Welfare Recidivism
Focus on patterns of participation in the AFDC program and the timing of demographic and socioeconomic events within the family.
Working Paper
Alternative Estimates of Economic Well-Being by Age
This paper examines the use of income-wealth measures for the analysis of the distribution of economic well-being for age groups in the current period.
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