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Taxes and Unit of analysis
Consumer Units, Households and Sharing: A View from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
(Kathleen Short and Timothy Smeeding, June 2005) [PDF]
Measuring and Modeling Taxes in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
(Jeff Sisson and Kathleen Short, August 2001) [PDF]
The "Family/Couple/Household" Unit of Analysis in Poverty Measurement
(John Iceland, August 2000)
Cohabitation and the Measurement of Child Poverty
(Marcia Carlson and Sheldon Danziger, February 1998)
Cohabitation and the Measurement of Child Poverty Tables
Shifting Family Definitons:
The Effect of Cohabitation and Other Nonfamily Household Relationships on Measures of Poverty (Kurt Bauman, January 1997)
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