Winning the War? : New Evidence on the Measurement and the Determinants of Poverty in the United States /

Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United States over the last four decades. Employing a price index that appears appropriate for low income households, we show that poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even...

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מחבר ראשי: Bergant, Katharina
מחברים אחרים: Medici, Andrea, Weber, Anke
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/004
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520 3 |a Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United States over the last four decades. Employing a price index that appears appropriate for low income households, we show that poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our results are threefold. First, we identify the poor as more likely to be minorities, without a college education, never married, and living in the Midwest. Second, the importance of some factors, such as race and ethnicity, for determining poverty has declined over the last decades but they remain significant. Third, we find that social and economic factors can only partially capture the likelihood of being poor, pointing to the possibility that random factors ("bad luck") could play a significant role. 
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650 7 |a Consumption Poverty  |2 imf 
650 7 |a Government Policy  |2 imf 
650 7 |a Measurement and Analysis of Poverty  |2 imf 
650 7 |a Methodology for Collecting, Estimating and Organizing Microeconomic Data  |2 imf 
650 7 |a Poverty, Inequality, Consumption, Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs  |2 imf 
650 7 |a Provision and Effects of Welfare Program  |2 imf 
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700 1 |a Weber, Anke. 
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