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Poverty Measurement Studies and Alternative Measures
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Working Paper Series
Poverty Thresholds
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Creating a Consistent Poverty Measure over Time Using NAS Procedures: 1996-2005 [PDF]
(Thesia I. Garner and Kathleen Short, April 2008)
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The Distributional Implications of Geographic Adjustment of Poverty Thresholds. [PDF]
(Charles Nelson and Kathleen Short, December 2003)
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A Decade of Experimental Poverty Thresholds 1990 to 2000 [PDF]
(Kathleen Short and Thesia I. Garner, June 2002)
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Where We Live - Geographic Differences in Poverty Thresholds [PDF]
(Kathleen Short, January 2001)
- Updating the Poverty Thresholds with Expenditure Data
(Richard Bavier, December 1997)
- Is There Such a Thing as an Absolute Poverty Line Over Time?
Evidence from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia
on the Income Elasticity of the Poverty Line
(by Gordon M. Fisher, August 1995)
- From Hunter to Orshansky: An overview of (Unofficial) Poverty Lines
in the United States from 1904 to 1965
(Gordon M. Fisher, October 1993--revised August 1997)
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Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data [PDF]
(David Johnson, Stephanie Shipp, and Thesia Garner, BLS, August 1997)
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"Is Everything Relative?" The Role of Equivalence Scales in Poverty Measurement. [PDF]
(David Betson, December 1996)
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