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Program Income and Public Assistance Working Papers
Program Income and Public Assistance 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.
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Working Paper
Social Security Earnings of Wives Relative to their Husbands
An extension of a previous evaluation in which the effectiveness of the methods in estimating amounts for food stamps recipiency was evaluated.
Working Paper
Evaluating the Quality of Income Data Collected in the CPS & the SIPP
A comparison of SIPP and March CPS data collection and processing procedures as a basis for comparability, highlighting main sources of nonsampling error.
Working Paper
Comparing Certain Effects of Redesign on Data from the SIPP
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.
Working Paper
Compensating for Missing Wave Data in the SIPP
A major problem in obtaining accurate estimates of income and program participation from the
SIPP is nonresponse.
Working Paper
Longitudinal Imputation of SIPP Food Stamp Benefits
This research examines the current and three alternative longitudinal imputation methods as applied to the SIPP item of food stamp income.
Working Paper
Program Participation and Attrition: The Empirical Evidence
In this paper, we use well-established attrition models to examine the effects of attrition on program participation and benefits received.
Working Paper
Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families
How do the competing interests of public and private coverage for single mothers affect these mothers' willingness to participate in the labor market?
Working Paper
The SIPP Cognitive Research Evaluation Experiment
This paper describes the basic features of the experimental procedures,their evolution, and implementation of those procedures.
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