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Working Paper

Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Poverty, and the Uninsured

December 29, 2010

This research offers three general refinements to incorporate MOOP expenditures into the poverty measure.

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Working Paper

Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds: Laying the Foundation

December 29, 2010

Guidelines to produce a poverty measure for the U.S. are included in a document, Observations from the Interagency Technical Working Group on Developing a SPM.

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Working Paper

Estimating the Value of Federal Housing Assistance

December 2010

This paper will describe the methodologies currently used by the Census Bureau to estimate the value of housing assistance.

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Working Paper

Using SIPP to Gauge the Behavior of TANF Recipients

November 2010

Examines the behaviors of welfare recipients as they pertain to meeting the fundamental goal of Welfare Reform.

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Working Paper

Who in the United States Sends and Receives Remittances?

November 2010

This paper describes the CPS Migration Supplement, a new source of migration-related data and discusses the quality of the monetary transfer data.

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Working Paper

Supplemental Poverty Measure: Preliminary Estimates for 2008

October 21, 2010

This paper lays the groundwork for preparing estimates of a Supplemental Poverty Measure for the U.S. at the Census Bureau.

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Working Paper

TANF Participation and Employment in SIPP (2004-2007)

August 2010

This paper examines trends in TANF receipt and employment among women ages 18 to 64 annually from 2004 to 2007 using the 2004 Panel of the SIPP.

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Working Paper

Using the ACS to Implement a NAS-Style Poverty Measure

August 2010

We compare the results of several different approaches to estimating the value of Food Stamp benefits and assigning housing assistance status

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Working Paper

Children's Coresidence with Half Siblings

March 31, 2010

A substantial proportion of children will live with half siblings during their childhood, and tend to fare worse on some measures of child well being.

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Working Paper

Setting and Updating Modern Poverty Thresholds

March 03, 2010

This research compares median-based thresholds with ones based on the 33rd percentile using CE Survey data from 2004 quarter one through 2009 quarter one.

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Working Paper

The buffer stock model of money demand: evidence from panel data

March 2010

This study empirically shows that the speed of adjustment is fast at the microeconomic level.

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Working Paper

Measurement Errors in SIPP Program Reports

January 14, 2010

An administrative record check of program participation reporting in the first two SIPP interviews.

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Working Paper

Experimental Modern Poverty Measures 2007

January 03, 2010

This paper presents some new developments in the experimental poverty measure series prepared by the Census Bureau.

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Working Paper

Comparability of Current Population Survey Income Data with other Data

2010

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Working Paper

Improving the Measurement of Family Resources

January 2010

This paper will describe the methodologies currently used by the Census Bureau to estimate the value of near-money nonmedical in-kind benefits.

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Working Paper

Methods of Estimating Poverty for School-Age Children

2010

This paper looks at two different approaches to modeling that address the problem of small samples in small areas.

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Working Paper

Serial Comparisons in Small Domain Models

2010

The U.S. Census Bureau's SAIPE program produces model-based estimates for small geographic areas.

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Working Paper

Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Program

2010

The US Census Bureau's SAIPE Program uses an empirical Bayes estimation method to produce annual estimates of the poverty rates.

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Working Paper

Variance Modeling in the U.S. SAIPE Program for the ACS

2010

In SAIPE program of the U.S. Census Bureau, one of the challenges is the estimation of sampling variances of the direct survey weighted estimators.

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