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Income Poverty and Multiple Deprivations in a High-Income Country: The Case of the United States

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  • Sophie Mitra

    (Fordham University)

  • Debra Brucker

    (New Hampshire University)

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This paper develops a measure of the joint distribution of multiple deprivations in the United States, in other words a measure of the extent to which different deprivations are experienced by the same individuals. Using Current Population Survey and American Community Survey data, we find that the experience of multiple deprivations affects 15 percent of Americans. We also find that income poverty is not a reliable proxy to measure multiple deprivations: 5.5% of the population, an estimated 17.1 million Americans, experience multiple deprivations while they are not income poor. The odds of experiencing multiple deprivations are two to three times higher for Hispanics, immigrants and persons with disabilities. Further measurement efforts are needed on overlapping multiple deprivations in the US as such measures can be used in policy evaluation and monitoring.

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  • Sophie Mitra & Debra Brucker, 2014. "Income Poverty and Multiple Deprivations in a High-Income Country: The Case of the United States," Fordham Economics Discussion Paper Series dp2014-05, Fordham University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:frd:wpaper:dp2014-05
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    Cited by:

    1. Oh, Jihyun, 2023. "Prevalence and factors associated with multidimensional child deprivation: Findings from the Future of Families and Child Well-Being Study," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    2. Kateryna Tkach & Chiara Gigliarano, 2022. "Multidimensional Poverty Index with Dependence-Based Weights," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 161(2), pages 843-872, June.
    3. Till Koebe & Alejandra Arias-Salazar & Timo Schmid, 2023. "Releasing survey microdata with exact cluster locations and additional privacy safeguards," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-13, December.

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    Keywords

    multiple deprivations; poverty; multidimensional poverty; United States.;
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    JEL classification:

    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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