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Distribution Sensitive Measures of Poverty in the United States

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  • John Bishop
  • John Formby
  • Buhong Zheng

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This paper develops and applies new measures of poverty that overcome a number of specific methodological flaws in the official US poverty statistics. Sen's distribution sensitive index of poverty and each of its components are estimated at several distinct poverty thresholds for the period 1961-1996. Distribution sensitive measures of urban poverty are corrected for interarea differences in the cost of living and for comprehensive incomes. Recently developed statistical inference procedures are applied. Official poverty statistics are shown to be seriously misleading in some time periods and the choice of a poverty line affects conclusions concerning changes in poverty.

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  • John Bishop & John Formby & Buhong Zheng, 1999. "Distribution Sensitive Measures of Poverty in the United States," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(3), pages 306-343.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:57:y:1999:i:3:p:306-343
    DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000005
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    1. Robert H. DeFina, 2007. "A comparison of poverty trends and policy impacts for working families using different poverty indexes," Working Papers 07-13, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
    2. Christopher Johnson, 2007. "A Re-count of Poverty in US Central Cities: Just Who and Where Are the Urban Poor?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 44(12), pages 2283-2303, November.
    3. Dean Jolliffe, 2003. "On the Relative Well‐Being of the Nonmetropolitan Poor: An Examination of Alternate Definitions of Poverty during the 1990s," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 70(2), pages 295-311, October.

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