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The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 among Single-Parent Families

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  • Kevin Corinth
  • Bruce D. Meyer
  • Derek Wu

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This paper is the first to examine changes in poverty over time using a comprehensive set of linked survey and administrative data, implementing the recommendations of the Interagency Technical Working Group on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID), we correct for measurement error in survey-reported incomes, focusing on single-parent families from 1995 to 2016. Our preferred estimates indicate that single-parent family poverty declined by 62 percent over time, while it fell by only 45 percent using survey data alone. Moreover, survey-reported deep poverty among single-parent families increased over time, while it fell using the CID.

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  • Kevin Corinth & Bruce D. Meyer & Derek Wu, 2022. "The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 among Single-Parent Families," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 112, pages 345-350, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:112:y:2022:p:345-50
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20221043
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    1. Illenin Kondo & Kevin Rinz & Natalie Gubbay & Brandon Hawkins & John Voorheis & Abigail Wozniak, 2024. "Granular Income Inequality and Mobility Using IDDA: Exploring Patterns Across Race and Ethnicity," NBER Chapters, in: Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, pages 405-459, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Corinth, Kevin & Larrimore, Jeff, 2024. "Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans," IZA Discussion Papers 16807, IZA Network @ LISER.
    3. Adam Bee & Irena Dushi & Joshua Mitchell & Brad Trenkamp, 2024. "Measuring Income of the Aged in Household Surveys: Evidence from Linked Administrative Records," Working Papers 24-32, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    4. 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:

    • 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
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure

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