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Working Paper

Poverty in the U.S. Taking Account of Taxes and Transfers in 2011

December 11, 2012

This paper expands on information about estimates of a Supplemental Poverty Measure for the U.S. reported earlier (Short, 2012).

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Working Paper

The Impact of a Mother' s Decision to Work

November 2012

Do children with stay-at-home mothers have higher adult earnings or more labor force experience by a given age?

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Working Paper

The Living Arrangements of Young Adults in the U.S. 1995-2011

October 2012

Examines how changes in living arrangements for young adults over the period were affected by the recession.

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Working Paper

Marital Homogamy and Economic Vulnerability During the Great Recession

2012

Examines whether those employed/formerly employed in occupations that were hard‐hit by the recession were more likely to have employed partners after recession.

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Working Paper

EITC Estimates in the CPS ASEC Simulations of After - Tax Income

August 22, 2012

The SEHSD of the Census Bureau regularly releases estimates of household income for the United States using information collected in the CPS Annual Supplement.

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Working Paper

Understanding Income-to-Threshold Ratios Using the SPM

August 21, 2012

This paper presents additional information about “moderate” income individuals with resources between 1 and 2 times the SPM thresholds.

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Working Paper

Standard Budgets (Basic Needs Budgets) in the United States Since 2006

August 2012

A “standard budget” is a list of goods and services that a family of a specified size and composition would need to live at a designated level of well-being.

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Working Paper

Changing the Face of Poor Lone Mothers

June 16, 2012

This paper analyzes how changes in poverty measurement affect the poverty rate of lone mother families.

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Working Paper

The Supplemental Poverty Measure

June 08, 2012

The Census Bureau released a report in November of 2011 with Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) estimates for calendar year 2010.

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Working Paper

An Initial Evaluation of Poverty in the SIPP-EHC

June 2012

This paper examines the impact of the new survey design (SIPP-EHC) on measures of income, poverty status, and poverty transitions within the reference period.

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Working Paper

Creation of a Child Well-Being Index Using the SIPP

May 2012

This poster describes the creation of an index of child well-being using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

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Working Paper

Alternative Strategies for Grouping People into Resource Units

May 03, 2012

Investigates how poverty estimates change when additional interpersonal relationship information is available.

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Working Paper

Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds

May 01, 2012

This study introduces the CPS Program Participation Method of imputing benefits for the National School Lunch Program & the Women, Infants, & Children program.

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Working Paper

Using the ACS to Implement a Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)

May 2012

For solving missing data issues, this paper examines how the data in the CPS ASEC might be used to inform ACS imputations.

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Working Paper

Notes on a Multivariate Fay-Herriot Model with AR(1) Model Errors

April 19, 2012

This paper talks about the Multivariate Fay-Herriot Model.

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Working Paper

Poverty in the U.S. Taking Account of Taxes and Transfers in 2010

March 15, 2012

This paper expands on information about estimates of a Supplemental Poverty Measure for the U.S. reported earlier.

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Working Paper

Changing Levels of Spousal Education and Labor Force Supply

March 2012

The purpose of this paper is to describe the labor force behavior of married couples where the woman is more educated than her husband.

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Working Paper

2010 Evaluation Report Covering Wages

February 06, 2012

Results of proposed changes to the wages content as tested in the 2010 American Community Survey Content Test.

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Working Paper

2010 Evaluation Report Covering Food Stamps/SNAP

January 26, 2012

Results of proposed changes to the food stamp/SNAP content as tested in the 2010 American Community Survey Content Test.

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Working Paper

2010 Evaluation Report Covering Property Income

January 26, 2012

Results of proposed changes to the property income content as tested in the 2010 American Community Survey Content Test.

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Working Paper

2010 Evaluation Report Covering Public Assistance

January 26, 2012

Results of proposed changes to the public assistance content as tested in the 2010 American Community Survey Content Test.

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Working Paper

A Bayesian Zero-One Inflated Beta Model for Small Area Shrinkage Est.

2012

We evaluate revisions to a Bayesian beta regression model proposed in Wieczorek and Hawala (2011), for U.S. county poverty rates.

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Working Paper

A Look at CPS Non-Response and Trends in Poverty

2012

This paper assesses the extent of the bias in poverty rates caused by earnings non-response and the hot deck procedure over the time period 1997-2008.

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Working Paper

Hierarchical Bayes Estimation of Poverty Rates

2012

In practice many applications of small area models use a `Normal-Normal-Linear' assumption, i.e., a normality assumption for the design-based survey estimates.

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Working Paper

Income Estimation for Former Household Members in the Redesigned SIPP

2012

We test the efficacy of the SIPP-EHC with regard to the capture of data on earned income from former household members.

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Working Paper

Time-Series Cross-Sectional Approach for Small Area Poverty Model

2012

Current production models of poverty utilized by the Census Bureau for the SAIPE program generally incorporate only a single-year of inputs.

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Working Paper

Use of Labor Market Indicators in Small Area Poverty Models

2012

Current production models of poverty and income utilized by the Census Bureau for the SAIPE program do not utilize labor market indicators.

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