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Working Paper

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty

December 2019

This paper examines extreme poverty in the U.S. using household surveys linked to administrative records.

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Working Paper

Impact of Family Structure, Mobility, & Employment on Children

November 2014

Research has found that children fare best in stable family environments where parents have stable relations, employment, and housing.

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Working Paper

Program Participation and Child Well-Being

November 2013

This study compares the well-being of low-income children who receive assistance from TANF and SNAP to their low-income, non-recipient counterparts.

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Working Paper

The Relation of Income to Other Measures of Material Well-being

April 2013

This paper builds on previous research using the SIPP to examine how income earned by household members contribute to the well-being of the household.

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Working Paper

Dynamics of Disconnection

April 2013

In the wake of welfare reform and the recent recession, there has been increased interest in identifying and assessing the well-being of disconnected families.

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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

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

Children's Religious Attendance and Child Well-Being

August 03, 2008

This analysis explores the role of religious attendance in relationship to parental support, school attachment and academic achievement among children.

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Working Paper

Instability and its Relationship to Child Well-Being: 2003

March 2006

Research suggests that major transitions in the lives of children have marked effects on children's well-being.

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Working Paper

Income Poverty and Material Hardship: How Strong Is the Association?

December 14, 2004

Many have argued that “poverty” should represent more than just a shortfall of income in a given time period, as it is most often currently measured.

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Working Paper

Age and Material Well-Being in the SIPP

August 2003

Increasing interest has focused on new ways to measure material well-being.

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Working Paper

Changes in Living Conditions and Material Well-Being in the SIPP

December 14, 2002

There has been increasing interest in finding new ways to measure people’s well being and keep track of how they are getting by.

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Working Paper

Documentation of Child and Family Well-Being Measures

February 22, 2002

This document assesses the reliability and validity of several of the child and family well-being measures in the 1998 Wave of the Survey of Program Dynamics.

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Working Paper

At-Risk Conditions of U.S. School-Age Children

June 15, 2001

This paper estimates the frequency of at-risk conditions for the school age population in the United States.

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Working Paper

Living Conditions in Single Parent Households

August 2000

The paper finds an apparent advantage of work over welfare for most households, but not for single parent households.

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Working Paper

Measures of Help Available to Households in Need

May 2000

This paper explores the interrelationships between expectations of support from social networks and the well being of households.

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Working Paper

Direct Measures of Poverty as Indicators of Economic Need

November 1998

The evidence presented here supports the use of hardship measures as a valid and useful measure of household well-being.

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Working Paper

Poverty, Family Structure, and Child Well-Being

April 1998

This paper assesses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) concerning child well-being.

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Working Paper

Child Well-Being Indicators From the SIPP

April 1998

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), collected in the Fall of 1994, provides analysis of child well-being in four areas.

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Working Paper

Developing Extended Measures of Well-Being

August 1996

An attempt to systematically measure or assess the state of the population with respect to its quality of life and progress.

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Working Paper

Cognitive Research on the Household Food Consumption Survey

October 15, 1993

Cognitive testing of the list of foods used by sample households in a given 7-day period in the Nationwide Food Consumption Survey.

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Working Paper

The SIPP as a Source of Data on Children and Families

June 1991

The well-being of children is a topic of concern to Americans. One reason for the burgeoning interest is the growing concentration of poverty among children.

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Working Paper

Alternative Estimates of Economic Well-Being by Age

March 1990

This paper examines the use of income-wealth measures for the analysis of the distribution of economic well-being for age groups in the current period.

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Working Paper

Longitudinal Household Concepts in SIPP: Preliminary Results

October 1986

This paper reports on research carried out with SIPP to define households over time and construct associated measures of social and economic well-being.

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