Income & Poverty
UMD/AEI Poverty Tabulator
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UMD/AEI Poverty
Tabulator User's Guide (Draft) [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov, John Coder, and Gordon Green
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Books, Monographs, and Papers
- JPAM Classics: Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy - Introduction [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009
- Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
- Income Transfers Alone Won’t Eradicate Poverty [PDF], The Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2009
- Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
- Lessons from the 2008–2009 Recession: Response to Plotnick [PDF], The Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2009
- Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
- Poverty Update:
The Long-Term Story behind the New Numbers [PDF], AEI On the Issues, September 27, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Beyond the
Safety Net: A Brief Review Forty Years after the War on Poverty [PDF], November 3, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Child Care Data in the
Survery of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Excerpt: The SIPP's General Problems [PDF], June 5, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov, Jeffrey S. Morrow, and Anne Fengyan Shi
- Poverty, Welfare Dependency,
and the Underclass [PDF], 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Not All Female-Headed Families
Are Created Equal [PDF], Public Interest, May 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov and Alison J. Quin
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Op-Eds
- The Rio Grande
Rises [PDF], The New York Times, October 1, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Poor
America [PDF], Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Broken
Yardstick [PDF], The New York Times, September 9, 2005
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- What about
the Poor: the Hope of a New Approach [PDF], The Washington Post, December 3, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Unemployment
Issues Go Beyond Race [PDF], The New York Times, December 14, 1991
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Conferences
Measuring Poverty after Katrina
, American Enterprise Institute Press
Briefing, August 28, 2006
- Measuring
Poverty after Katrina
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Material
Deprivation in Modern America: Looking beyond the "Poverty Rate"
- Nicholas Eberstadt
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Reconsidering the Federal Poverty Measure Seminar
Seminar 1: A Mismatch Between the Official Poverty Count and Other Social Welfare
Indicators?
July 20, 2004
- Reconsidering the
Federal Poverty Measure [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 1 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green, with John Iceland
Seminar 2: Measuring the Material Well-Being of Poor Children
, September 14, 2004
- Can We Fix the Federal
Poverty Measure So It Provides Reliable Information about Changes in Children's Living Conditions? [PDF]
- Christopher Jencks, Susan E. Mayer, and Joseph Swingle
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 2 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 3: Poverty by Definition of Income
, October 12, 2004
- Towards Decisions on a
Pre-transfer Poverty Measure [PDF]
- Charles Murray
- Income Data Quality
Issues in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey [PDF]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Reductions in Poverty in the
1990s Significantly Greater Than Official Estimates Suggest [PDF]
- Joint Economic Committee Democrats, Economic Policy Brief
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 3 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 4: Consumer Expenditures, Consumption, and Poverty Measurement
,
November 18, 2004
- Measuring Consumption and
Consumption Poverty: Possibilities and Issues [PDF]
- David S. Johnson
- The Household Arrangements of
Hispanics [PDF]
- Roberto Suro
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 4 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 5: The Poverty Thresholds: What Additional Forms of Income Can Be Counted Using
the Current Thresholds? And, Under What Conditions Should the Thresholds Be Changed?
January 11, 2005
- Measuring Poverty: Income
Thresholds and Resource Measures [PDF]
- Timothy Smeeding
- Measuring Poverty: What Should
be Counted Where? [PDF]
- Patricia Ruggles
- Misclassification in an experimental
poverty measure [PDF]
- Richard Bavier
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 5 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 6: Indicators of Deprivation and Well-Being in Modern America
, March 8, 2005
- Indicators of Deprivation and
Well-Being in Modern America [Power Point]
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- Poverty and Health [Power Point]
- Jennifer Madans, Kimberly Lochner, and Diane Makuc
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 6 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 7: Alternative Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-Poverty Effects of
Taxes and Transfers
, May 10, 2005
- Tonight's Discussion
[Power Point]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Alternative Measures of Income
Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of Taxes and Transfers (presentation) [Power Point]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Alternative
Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of Taxes and Transfers [PDF]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
Supplemental Tables - Part 1 - Part 2 [PDF]
- Retooling the Poverty Measure
[PDF]
- Robert D. Reischauer
- Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 7
[PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
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Testimony
- Testimony
on Measuring Poverty in America, U.S. Congress, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on
Income Security and Family Support, August 1, 2007 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony
on The Economic Stagnation of the Black Middle Class, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, July 15, 2005 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Expanding
the African-American Middle Class: Improving Labor Market Outcomes, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
July 15, 2005 [PDF]
- Harry J. Holzer
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