Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

By Bruce D. Meyer, James X. Sullivan. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Cost of Living Inequality During the Great Recession (2016, unknown): “Finally, mismeasurement in the cost of living has important implications de- termining the eligibility and allocation of public assistance programs particularly during bad times (Michael et al., 1995; Meyer and Sullivan, 2009).”
Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality (2015, methodology): “We then estimate a simple demand system which we use to generate our estimates of consumption inequality growth.”
Trickle-Down Consumption (2016, unknown): “We exclude the purchasing and selling of homes and vehicles.1 Instead, following Cutler and Katz (1991), Chetty and Szeidl (2007), and Meyer and Sullivan (2010), our annual consumption measures for shelter and vehicles capture the service flow of these items.”
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research (2011, unknown): “There is a large literature using the microdata files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) for this purpose, for microdata files are available from the 1960s to the present (Danziger et al., 1981; Ziliak, 2005, 2008; Meyer and Sullivan, 2009).”
Measuring living standards with income and consumption: evidence from the UK (2012, background): “However, we show that, as in the US (see Meyer and Sullivan, 2010) those items which make up a large fraction of spending of low-spending households have relatively good coverage rates, suggesting that consumption may be a less good indicator of the living standards of those with high resources…”
The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940 (2017, background): “8 percentage points from the annual inflation rate implied by the CPIU-RS to account for such biases (24, 25).”
Rising Income Inequality: Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization? (2008, unknown): “, Ravallion and Chen (1996), and Meyer and Sullivan (2006).”