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Fixing Errors in a SNAP: Addressing SNAP Underreporting to Evaluate Poverty

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  • Liana Fox
  • Jonathan Rothbaum
  • Kathryn Shantz

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Since 1969, the official poverty measure has remained largely unchanged, despite substantial changes in the social safety net. This paper proposes a methodology for creating a buildable replacement to the official poverty measure, starting with market-based income, incorporating social insurance income, and building toward the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). While all components would not be available for the full time series, this approach would keep the unit of analysis constant, allow thresholds to vary by geography, and allow full understanding of the role of government taxes and transfers on poverty rates over time.

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  • Liana Fox & Jonathan Rothbaum & Kathryn Shantz, 2022. "Fixing Errors in a SNAP: Addressing SNAP Underreporting to Evaluate Poverty," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 112, pages 330-334, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:112:y:2022:p:330-34
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20221040
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    1. Adam Bee & Joshua Mitchell & Nikolas Mittag & Jonathan Rothbaum & Carl Sanders & Lawrence Schmidt & Matthew Unrath, 2023. "National Experimental Wellbeing Statistics - Version 1," Working Papers 23-04, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

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    JEL classification:

    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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