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The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single Parent Families / Kevin Corinth, Bruce D. Meyer, Derek Wu.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Corinth, Kevin.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Meyer, Bruce D.
Wu, Derek.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29870.
NBER working paper series no. w29870
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
Summary:
This paper is the first to examine changes in poverty over time using a comprehensive set of linked survey and administrative data, implementing recommendations of the Interagency Technical Working Group on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID), we correct for measurement error in survey-reported incomes, focusing on single parent families from 1995 to 2016. Our preferred estimates indicate that single parent family poverty declined by 62% over time, while it fell by only 45% using survey data alone. Moreover, survey-reported deep poverty among single parent families increased over time, while it fell using the CID.
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March 2022.

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