The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences

By Bruce D. Meyer, Wallace K. C. Mok, James X. Sullivan. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Safety Net and Poverty in the Great Recession (2016, methodology): “We use the early 1980s recessions, which, prior to theGreat Recession, represented 12 Meyer, Mok, and Sullivan ð2009Þ document that household surveys underreport government program participation and transfer payments and find that the rate of underreporting is increasing over time.”
Consumption and Income Inequality and the Great Recession (2013, background): “Income in the CPS is substantially underreported, especially income sources important for those with few resources, and the extent of underreporting has increased over time (Meyer, Mok, and Sullivan 2009).”
On the estimation of treatment effects with endogenous misreporting (2016, methodology): “We only analyze the case of one-sided misreporting at this stage, which is the predominant case of misreporting described in Meyer et al. (2009).”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2012 (2013, neutral): “The CPS food security surveys over that period alternated between April in odd-numbered years and August or September in even-numbered years.”
Microsimulation and policy analysis (2014, background): “As benefit income tends to be underreported in survey data (Lynn et al., 2012; Meyer et al. 2009), use of simulated benefits has the potential to improve the accuracy of income information (see more in section 4.1).”
The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940 (2017, result): “The estimates of tax credits from TAXSIM are frequently higher than those estimated in (40), consistent with underreporting of credits and transfers in survey data (41).”
Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation (2014, neutral): “Meyer, Mok, and Sullivan (2009) find substantial under-reporting of public benefit receipt compared to administrative records in 5 major surveys, including the Current Population Survey.”
The Cyclicality of the Opportunity Cost of Employment (2016, background): “In recent years, the theory of unemployment with search and matching frictions described in Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) (hereafter MP model) has emerged as the workhorse building block of the labor market in macroeconomic models. As emphasized in influential work by Shimer (2005) and Hall (2005)”
The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States (2011, background): “A recent example is Nord and Prell (2011), who showed that the temporary increase in SNAP benefits due to the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 led to reductions in food insecurity among those in the SNAP-eligible population, but not among the SNAP-ineligible popul”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2017 (2018, background): “For years before 2011, standard errors of national estimates use a design factor of 1.6 based on the complex CPS sample design.”