Income, program participation, poverty, and financial vulnerability: Research and data needs

Child Poverty, Program Participation, and Intergenerational Coresidence: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Child Poverty, Program Participation, and Intergenerational Coresidence: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation The purpose of this study is to provide an assessment of poverty and program participation among children who reside in households that include elderly adults aged 65 and over. Children and the elderly draw on different pools of public support, fueling recent dis...

Poverty-Measurement Research Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation

The most recent comprehensive examination of poverty measurement in the United States was conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance (Constance F. Citro and Robert T. Michael, 1995). In their report, the Panel recommended changing the definition of both the poverty thresholds and the resources that are used to measure poverty. In this paper we imp...

Poverty and program participation among immigrant children.

Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower educational achievement and behavioral problems to lower earnings in the labor market. But few researchers have explored whether exposure to a disadvantaged background affects immigrant children and native children differently. George Borjas uses Current Population S...

Census Survey of Income and Program Participation

The Survey of Income and Program Participation Work Related Expenditures in a New Measure of Poverty

for 1996 ASA Social Statistics Section