Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
By Bruce D. Meyer, James X. Sullivan. 2003
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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The Relationship between Income and Material Hardship (2008, unknown): “Meyer & Sullivan (2003) show that current consumption is more closely associated with measures of material well-being than is current”
- The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme (2016, methodology): “In addition, because of the many outcome variables, we exploit the methodology in Poterba et al. (2013) by using principal component analysis (PCA) on the three dimensions, and obtain an unhealthiness score for the full sample.”
- THE MISMATCH BETWEEN INCOME MEASURES AND DIRECT OUTCOME MEASURES OF POVERTY (2002, unknown): “Mayer and Jencks 1993, Slesnick 1993, Jorgenson 1998, Haveman and Mullikin 1999, Meyer and Sullivan 2002 ).”
- Why is consumption more log normal than income? Gibrat's law revisited (2007, unknown): “[20] Meyer, B.”
- The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2014, unknown): “These indicators are also frequently used as measures of economic well-being (or welfare) (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003).”
- The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s (2004, unknown): “The conceptual and reporting reasons to prefer consumption are discussed in detail in our companion paper (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) so only a brief summary is provided here.”
- The Relation Between Life Satisfaction and the Material Situation: A Re-Evaluation Using Alternative Measures (2010, unknown): “exceeds the one found for the consumption variables among respondents with low consumption levels (Meyer and Sullivan 2003).”
- How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States (2008, unknown): “For instance, see Meyer and Sullivan (2003) or Jencks, Mayer, and Swingle (2004). 28 Recommendation 4.”