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Working Paper

Defining and Measuring Nonmetro Poverty: Results from the SIPP

November 1988

This paper presents results from a study that used SIPP data to examine poverty in nonmetro areas.

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Working Paper

The Employment of Mothers and the Prevention of Poverty

November 1988

Our goal in this paper is to examine empirically the role that the employment of mothers plays (and might play) in keeping (or getting) families above poverty.

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Working Paper

Training, Wage Growth, Firm Size

November 1988

The question of whether workers receive more on-the-job training at large firms or at small ones can only be resolved by analyses of empirical data.

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Working Paper

Income and Assets of Social Security Beneficiaries by Type of Benefit

August 1988

A look at the economic status of five beneficiary groups, including average income & poverty rates, the composition of income & level of asset holdings.

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Working Paper

Reservation Wages & Subsequent Acceptance Wages of Unemployed Persons

August 1988

The reservation wage, or the lowest wage a person would accept for market work, continues to be an important concept in the theory of labor markets.

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Working Paper

A Methodological Study Using Administrative Records

July 1988

The Special Frames Study reviewed the use of administrative records to improve sampling efficiency & analyzed household survey reports of program participation.

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Working Paper

Income as a Proxy for the Economic Status of the Elderly

July 1988

This paper explores the importance of having asset data to evaluate the economic situation of the elderly.

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Working Paper

Income as a Proxy for the Economic Status of the Elderly

July 1988

This paper explores the importance of having asset data to evaluate the economic situation of the elderly.

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Working Paper

Measuring Poverty and Crises

July 1988

This paper demonstrates that the official poverty measure is conceptually deficient, and discusses how to remedy those deficiencies.

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Working Paper

Measuring Poverty and Crises

July 1988

In this paper we demonstrate that the official poverty measure is conceptually deficient.

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Working Paper

The Dynamics of Medicaid Enrollment

July 1988

In this paper, considering just the noninstitutionalized population served by Medicaid, we examine another aspect of the program's heterogeneity.

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Working Paper

The Effect of Income Taxation on Labor Supply

July 1988

This paper analyzes the implications of the existence of endogenously chosen deductions for the specification and estimation of labor supply functions.

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Working Paper

Year-Apart Estimates of Household Net Worth from the SIPP

July 1988

This paper presents the wave 4 and wave 7 estimates and offers some conclusions about what the comparisons show about the reliability of the estimates.

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Working Paper

Measuring Poverty with the SIPP and the CPS

June 1988

This paper uses SIPP data to obtain poverty rate estimates for 1984, and compares those estimates with the official poverty statistics derived from the CPS.

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Working Paper

Short Term Changes in Income & the Relationship to the Low Income Pop.

June 1988

Examines short spells of low income, and the characteristics of those who tend to exit from poverty relatively rapidly, as compared to those who remain.

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Working Paper

The Discourage Worker Effect: A Reappraisal Using Spell Duration Data

June 1988

The purpose of this paper is to formulate and estimate a microdynamic reduced form model for the transition between unemployment and non-participation.

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Working Paper

The Wealth of the Aged and Nonaged, 1984

June 1988

This paper discusses and illustrates the use of wealth data for the analysis of the economic status of households.

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Working Paper

The Wealth of the Aged and Nonaged, 1984

June 1988

This paper discusses and illustrates the use of wealth data for the analysis of the economic status of households.

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Working Paper

Welfare Recipient as Observed in the SIPP

June 1988

This paper examines welfare recipiency as reported in the 1984 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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Working Paper

The Impact of the Unit of Analysis on Measure of Program Participation

May 1988

Studies indicate that multiple program participation is quite common for participant households.

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Working Paper

A Look at Welfare Dependency Using the 1984 SIPP Panel File

April 1988

This paper presents some basic kinds of statistics on welfare dependency so researchers familiar with this area of work can get a feel for this new data set.

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Working Paper

Factors Associated with Household Net Worth

February 1988

The purpose of this paper is to further analyze the factors correlated with wealth holdings by using a multivariate regression model.

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