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Working Paper
Health Inclusive Poverty Measure in the United States: 2022
This paper provides estimates of economic well-being using the Health Inclusive Poverty Measure for 2022.
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Health Inclusive Poverty Measure Estimates in the United States: 2014 to 2021
This paper presents estimates of Health Inclusive Poverty in the United States from 2014 to 2021.
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Identifying Gentrification Using Machine Learning
The paper explores machine learning techniques to identify housing units at high risk of gentrification in Washington D.C. Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Effects of 2020 Census-Based Population Controls on 2020 Estimates
This paper demonstrates the effect of using the 2020 Census-based population controls on the 2020 data by presenting key estimates using both the 2010 and 2020
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Examining the Impact of Medical Expenses on Supplemental Poverty Rates
The paper examines the impact of deducting out-of-pocket medical expenses on Supplemental Poverty rates.
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The Impact of Alternative Inflation Adjustments on CPS ASEC Income Statistics
This paper documents the implications of using chain type price indices to inflation adjust estimates of historical income and earnings statistics.
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Using WIC Administrative Data to Evaluate the SPM
This paper links state administrative data on the WIC program to the CPS ASEC to assess the impact of WIC misreporting on the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Incorporating Health Insurance in Poverty Measurement: Implementing a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure in the United States
This paper discusses the feasibility of incorporating a value of health insurance in the Supplemental Poverty Measure framework
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Modeling Shared Responsibility Payments from the Affordable Care Act
This paper explores the possibility of modeling and adding the shared responsibility payment from the Affordable Care Act into the CPS ASEC tax model.
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Medical Out-of-Pocket Spending Among the Uninsured
This paper refines the treatment of Medical Out-of-Pocket (MOOP) spending among the uninsured in measuring poverty.
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Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Poverty, and the Uninsured
This research offers three general refinements to incorporate MOOP expenditures into the poverty measure.
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Imputing Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures Using SIPP and MEPS
In this paper, we compare two parametric statistical matching methods used to generate synthetic medical out of pocket expenditure (MOOP) data.
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Experimental Poverty Measures Under Alternate Treatments
This paper presents experimental poverty measures that update those presented in Current Population Report, P60-216, “Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999”.
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Impact of Imputation Strategies for Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures
The impact of medical out-of-pocket expenses (MOOP) on alternative poverty rates is estimated in this paper.
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Do the Current Poverty Thresholds Include Any Amount for Health Care?
This paper addresses the question raised: Do the current poverty thresholds implicitly include any amounts for health care?
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Imputation of Medical Out of Pocket (MOOP) Spending to CPS Records
This report presents an analysis of the previous modeling approach and a series of recommendations that should ‘improve’ the imputations of MOOP to the CPS.
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Medical Care Needs in Poverty Thresholds
This paper compares several methods of incorporating medical care needs into a revised poverty measure.
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Response to Bavier’s Critique of the NRC Panel’s Recommendations
In a series of three papers, Richard Bavier of OMB has questioned the wisdom of the NRC Panel’s treatment of medical needs for measuring poverty.
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Medical Out-Of-Pocket Spending in Poverty Thresholds
Two options for including amounts for MOOP in poverty thresholds like those proposed by the National Research Council are presented.
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Medical Needs and the Poverty Thresholds
This paper tests the assertion that out-of-pocket medical spending is "much more variable than needs for such items as food and housing."
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The Case of Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenditures
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is the premiere data source for computing poverty using the proposed alternative measurement methods.
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Who's at Risk? Designing a Medical Care Risk Index
This paper strives to operationalize the concept of a Medical Care Risk Index and recommend an approach for computing the index.
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In Search of Truth “How Much do Americans Spend on their Health Care?”
The purpose of this memo is to explore what we know about American’s spending on health care and especially how much of it comes out of the family’s budgets.
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Administrative Data as a Source of Medical Expenditures
In this paper we explore the potential of future health services administrative data systems to improve the measurement of poverty.
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