The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor's Living Standards

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The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940 (2017, background): “Several studies have noted that the CPI-U-RS may overstate inflation by failing to account adequately for improvements in product quality and the introduction of new goods (22, 23).”
Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities (2013, background): “High-income households do pay more for the same products but, consistent with Broda et al. (2009), most of this gradient is explained by the fact that they are buying different products that are sold at higher prices to all consumers.”