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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers
Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers
Working Paper
Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the Redesigned CPS
How the redesign of the CPS ASEC processing system affected estimates of medical expenditures and medical burden.
Working Paper
Capping Nutritional Assistance in the Supplemental Poverty Measure
This paper develops a methodology and investigates the potential impact of capping nutritional assistance benefits in the estimation of the SPM.
Working Paper
Impact of Using State Average WIC Values in the SPM
Using data from the 2018 CPS ASEC, this paper analyzes the impact of using state-varying WIC values instead of national WIC values to estimate SPM rates.
Working Paper
Student Debt Discourages Young Workers from Becoming Self-Employed
This paper examines the relationship between student debt and self-employment for young adults using the SIPP and Administrative Records.
Working Paper
Subsidized Marketplace Coverage in the American Community Survey
This paper provides background on the new premium and subsidy question and presents estimates of subsidized Marketplace coverage.
Working Paper
COVID-19 and Measuring Health Insurance Coverage in the 2020 CPS ASEC
This paper examines how changes to survey operations during the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced health insurance coverage estimates for the 2020 CPS ASEC
Working Paper
An Analysis of the Gender Poverty Gap
This paper explores the gender poverty gap using the American Community Survey and how this gap varies by state and by demographic groups.
Working Paper
Poverty and the Incidence of Material Hardship, Revisited
This working paper uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine trends in hardship over time.
Working Paper
The Supplemental Poverty Measure using the American Community Survey
This working paper develops a research series implementing the SPM in the ACS.
Working Paper
SIPP Administrative Data Survey Weights
This project performs initial research on incorporating administrative data into the weighting algorithm for the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Working Paper
Using ACS Earnings Data to Adjust SPM Thresholds
Impact of using a NCES-style comparable wage index to adjust the Supplemental Poverty Measure thresholds.
Working Paper
What is a Primary Occupation? Comparing Occupation Measures in the ACS and the SIPP
This paper compares the 2013 ACS 1-year estimates with the SIPP 2014 Panel, Wave 1 estimates to assess if occupation is measured consistently across surveys.
Working Paper
Where’s Daddy? Challenges in the Measurement of Men’s Fertility
We dissect differences in men’s and women’s fertility as represented in the SIPP and argue that these data offer evidence of a “missing man” problem.
Working Paper
Potential Improvements to the Supplemental Poverty Measure
This presentation gives an overview of potential changes to the SPM under consideration for 2021.
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