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Working Paper

Changing the Way the United States Measures Income and Poverty

November 1996

The discussion in this paper covers both income measurement and poverty definition issues.

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Working Paper

Work Related Expenditures in a New Measure of Poverty

August 07, 1996

This paper examines various methods of accounting for work related expenses (including child care expenses) in a new measure of poverty.

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Working Paper

Work Related Expenditures in a New Measure of Poverty

August 07, 1996

This paper examines various methods of accounting for work related expenses (including child care expenses) in a new measure of poverty.

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Working Paper

The Effect of the SIPP Redesign on Employment and Earnings Data

August 02, 1996

This paper describes the major changes introduced in the 1996 Panel focusing on the sections on employment status, job & employer characteristics, and earnings.

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Working Paper

Developing Extended Measures of Well-Being

August 1996

An attempt to systematically measure or assess the state of the population with respect to its quality of life and progress.

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Working Paper

Social Security Earnings of Wives Relative to their Husbands

August 1996

An extension of a previous evaluation in which the effectiveness of the methods in estimating amounts for food stamps recipiency was evaluated.

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Working Paper

Evaluating the Quality of Income Data Collected in the CPS & the SIPP

July 1996

A comparison of SIPP and March CPS data collection and processing procedures as a basis for comparability, highlighting main sources of nonsampling error.

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Working Paper

Administrative Data as a Source of Medical Expenditures

June 1996

In this paper we explore the potential of future health services administrative data systems to improve the measurement of poverty.

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Working Paper

An Evaluation and Analysis of Reservation Wage Data from SIPP

June 1996

The reservation wage is an important element in an individual’s decision to participate in the labor market.

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Working Paper

Comparing Certain Effects of Redesign on Data from the SIPP

June 1996

Identifies the incidence and estimate the magnitude of data differences between the data collected from the SIPP/CAPI and data collected by paper and pencil.

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Working Paper

Compensating for Missing Wave Data in the SIPP

June 1996

A major problem in obtaining accurate estimates of income and program participation from the SIPP is nonresponse.

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Working Paper

Income Poverty Times Series Data from the SIPP

June 1996

In 1996, SIPP will go into the field with a redesigned sample with oversampling for the low income population and with computer assisted personal interviewing.

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Working Paper

Longitudinal Imputation of SIPP Food Stamp Benefits

June 1996

This research examines the current and three alternative longitudinal imputation methods as applied to the SIPP item of food stamp income.

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Working Paper

Program Participation and Attrition: The Empirical Evidence

June 1996

In this paper, we use well-established attrition models to examine the effects of attrition on program participation and benefits received.

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Working Paper

Research on Characteristics of SIPP Nonrespondents Using IRS Data

June 1996

Nonresponse increases with successive interviews, causing the sample to become less representative of the population it is approximating.

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Working Paper

The Effects of Special Saving Programs on Saving and Wealth

June 1996

An overview of the retirement saving programs in the U.S. & a summary of the effects of these programs on the saving behavior & wealth of U.S. households.

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Working Paper

Past is Prologue: Simulating Lifetime Social Security Earnings

March 1996

This paper projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the SIPP matched to Social Security records of annual earnings.

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Working Paper

Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families

March 1996

How do the competing interests of public and private coverage for single mothers affect these mothers' willingness to participate in the labor market?

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Working Paper

The Role of Equivalence Scales in Poverty Measurement

March 1996

Counting the poor is conceptually a rather simple procedure.

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Working Paper

The SIPP Cognitive Research Evaluation Experiment

January 11, 1996

This paper describes the basic features of the experimental procedures,their evolution, and implementation of those procedures.

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