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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19789
来源ID	Working Paper 19789
	Waging War on Poverty: Historical Trends in Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure
	Liana Fox; Irwin Garfinkel; Neeraj Kaushal; Jane Waldfogel; Christopher Wimer
发表日期	2014-01-03
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the March Current Population Survey, we calculate historical poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near-cash transfers on the financial resources available to families, an important omission since such transfers have become an increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that historical trends in poverty have been more favorable than the OPM suggests and that government policies have played an important and growing role in reducing poverty --- a role that is not evident when the OPM is used to assess poverty. We also find that government programs have played a particularly important role in alleviating child poverty and deep poverty, especially during economic downturns.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19789
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577462
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liana Fox,Irwin Garfinkel,Neeraj Kaushal,et al. Waging War on Poverty: Historical Trends in Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure. 2014.