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

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  • Ziliak, James P.

    (University of Kentucky)

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This paper assesses the data infrastructure needed for future research and policy evaluation on income, program participation, poverty, and financial vulnerability in the United States. I present a broad-based discussion of research needs on the long-term consequences of income inequality and mobility, transfer-program participation and intergenerational dependence, poverty measurement and poverty persistence, and material deprivation. I summarize what information we currently collect in U.S. household panels, highlighting specific challenges such as earnings nonresponse and transfer-income underreporting. I conclude that a first priority is to improve the quality, scale, and scope of currently fielded surveys, including linked survey-administrative data, before embarking on a new longitudinal panel to address research on inequality, poverty, and material well being.

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  • Ziliak, James P., 2015. "Income, program participation, poverty, and financial vulnerability: Research and data needs," Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, IOS Press, issue 1-4, pages 27-68.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:iosjes:0027
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    Cited by:

    1. Jonathan Fisher & Bradley L. Hardy, 2023. "Money matters: consumption variability across the income distribution," Fiscal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 44(3), pages 275-298, September.
    2. Gennetian, Lisa A. & Rodrigues, Christopher & Hill, Heather D. & Morris, Pamela A., 2018. "Stability of income and school attendance among NYC students of low-income families," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 20-30.
    3. Colin Gray & Adam Leive & Elena Prager & Kelsey B. Pukelis & Mary Zaki, 2021. "Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply," NBER Working Papers 28877, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Goetz, Stephen & Partridge, Mark & Stephens, Heather, 2017. "The Economic Status of Rural America in the Trump Era," MPRA Paper 77830, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Income inequality; intergenerational mobility; material hardship; panel data; nonresponse; top-code;
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values

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