Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes (2018, unknown): “To put this in context, Hoynes et al. (2006) estimate that EITC reduces non-elderly poverty rate by around 1.7 percent, and cash transfers (means tested and non-means tested) cash transfers reduce it by around 3.8 percentage point, while non-cash transfers (other than Medicaid) reduce it by around…”
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Safety Net and Poverty in the Great Recession (2016, unknown): “2 This tight connection between labor market opportunities, economic growth and poverty reflects patterns experienced over prior business cycles (Bitler and Hoynes 2010; Blank 1989, 1993; Blank and Blinder 1986; Blank and Card 1993; Cutler and Katz 1991; Freeman 2001; Gunderson and Ziliak 2004; Hoyn”
Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty (2009, background): “Hoynes et al. (2006) provides a perceptive recent summary of the evidence on explanations for changes in official poverty.”
The dynamics of poverty in the United States: A review of data, methods, and findings (2008, background): “Iceland finds that omitting left-censored cases potentially introduces greater bias in poverty transitions than including them because it would systematically exclude individuals in the midst of long-term poverty. Iceland (1997b) does not omit left-censored cases from his model because his focus is ”