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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
Impact of Family Structure, Mobility, & Employment on Children
Research has found that children fare best in stable family environments where parents have stable relations, employment, and housing.
Working Paper
Survey of Income and Program Participation: 2009
This paper has described in some detail the process of moving the measurement of poverty in the CPS to measuring poverty in the SIPP.
Working Paper
Examining the Middle Class in the US Using the Lens of the SPM
Many examinations of the middle class use a measure of income to identify the group of interest.
Working Paper
Employment Transitions among the Self-Employed
Entrepreneurs base their decision to start a business on a range of factors, from age, education and assets to macroeconomic conditions.
Working Paper
Wave 1 Effects on Poverty Calculations in the 2008 SIPP Panel
This analysis compares the Wave 1 effect in the 2008 SIPP Panel to the 2004 Panel and investigates discrepancies in monthly poverty rates across panels & waves.
Working Paper
Accounting for Group Classification Error in Variance Estimates
Using poverty areas, this paper shows how group classification error can be calculated and incorporated into the variance of estimates using the 2006-2010 ACS.
Working Paper
How long do early career decisions follow women?
The impact of industry and firm size history on the gender and motherhood wage gaps.
Working Paper
An Examination of Retirement Income for the 65+ Population
Every several years the SIPP is supplemented by a topical module which measures the retirement income and retirement plan coverage of the population.
Working Paper
Fathers, Children, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
Documents the tendency of fathers in the U.S. to share employers with their sons and daughters.
Working Paper
Adjustments with Regional Price Parities vs. Median Rents from the ACS
The focus in this paper is to compare two types of geographic adjustments.
Working Paper
The Role of CPS Nonresponse on the Level and Trend in Poverty
We compare a “full response” poverty rate that assumes all ASEC respondents
provided earnings data to the official poverty rate to gauge the nonresponse bias.
Working Paper
Factors Influencing Transitions Into & Out of Near Poverty: 2004-2012
This paper examines the factors associated with transitions into and out
of near poverty.
Working Paper
Explaining Changes in SIPP Monthly Poverty Rates in the 2004 Panel
This study addresses anomalies in the 2004 panel by decomposing changes in monthly poverty rates into cross-sectional and within person differences.
Working Paper
Household Wealth in the U.S.: 2000 to 2011
Wealth is one of the primary bellwethers of household financial security and prospects in the United States.
Working Paper
Work-related expenses in the Supplemental Poverty Measure
This paper will take advantage of information derived from ACS questions to describe and analyze alternate methods of estimating commuting costs.
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