Experimental poverty measures: Accounting for medical expenditures

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3-12

  Short, Kathleen ^a   Garner, Thesia I ^b  

^a U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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EID: 3543104571     PISSN: 00981818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (21)

1. Short, Kathleen, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999, Current Population Reports, Consumer Income, P60-216 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2001).
2. Patricia Ruggles, Drawing the Line - Alternative Poverty Measures and Their Implications for Public Policy (Washington, DC, Urban Institute Press, 1990).
3. Constance F. Citro and Robert T. Michael, eds., Measuring Poverty: A New Approach (Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 1995).
4. Citro and Michael, Measuring Poverty, p. 5.
5. Early work includes David Johnson, Stephanie Shipp, Thesia I. Garner, "Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data," in Proceedings of the Government and Social Statistics Section (Alexandria, VA, American Statistical Association, August 1997) and Thesia I. Garner Stephanie Shipp, Geoffrey Paulin, Kathleen Short, and Charles Nelson, "Poverty Measurement in the 1990s," Monthly Labor Review, March 1998, pp. 39-61. These and other Poverty Measurement Working Papers are available on Census Bureau poverty measurement Web site: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas.htm.
6. Early work includes David Johnson, Stephanie Shipp, Thesia I. Garner, "Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data," in Proceedings of the Government and Social Statistics Section (Alexandria, VA, American Statistical Association, August 1997) and Thesia I. Garner Stephanie Shipp, Geoffrey Paulin, Kathleen Short, and Charles Nelson, "Poverty Measurement in the 1990s," Monthly Labor Review, March 1998, pp. 39-61. These and other Poverty Measurement Working Papers are available on Census Bureau poverty measurement Web site: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas.htm.
7. Short, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999, 2001 and Kathleen Short, Thesia I. Gamer, David Johnson, and Patricia Doyle, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990 to 1997, Current Population Reports, Consumer Income, P60-205 (U.S. Census Bureau, 1999).
8. Short, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999, 2001 and Kathleen Short, Thesia I. Gamer, David Johnson, and Patricia Doyle, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990 to 1997, Current Population Reports, Consumer Income, P60-205 (U.S. Census Bureau, 1999).
9. See for example, "Open Letter on Revising the Official Measure of Poverty," Conveners of the Working Group on Revising the Poverty Measure, U.S. Census Bureau, Aug. 2, 2000, on the Internet at: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas.htm for the full text of this letter.
10. See David Betson, "Poor Old Folks: Have Our Methods of Poverty Measurement Blinded Us to Who is Poor?" University of Notre Dame, Poverty Measurement Working Paper (U.S. Census Bureau, 1995).
11. See Richard Bavier, "Medical Needs and the Poverty Thresholds," Poverty Measurement Working Paper (U.S. Census Bureau, 1998), and a summary of Marilyn Moon's proposal in Citro and Michael, Measuring Poverty, p. 236.
12. See Richard Bavier, "Medical Needs and the Poverty Thresholds," Poverty Measurement Working Paper (U.S. Census Bureau, 1998), and a summary of Marilyn Moon's proposal in Citro and Michael, Measuring Poverty, p. 236.
13. Citro and Michael, Measuring Poverty, 1995, pp. 223-37.
14. Short, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999, 2001.
15. See David Betson, "Imputation of Medical Out of Pocket (MOOP) Spending to CPS Records," University of Notre Dame, Poverty Measurement Working Paper (U.S. Census Bureau, February 2001) for complete details.
16. For a description of the procedure using earlier data, see Garner and others, "Poverty measurement,"1998.
17. Johnson and others, "Developing Poverty Thresholds," 1997.
18. Short, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999, 2001.
19. For more details on this method, see Jessica Banthin, Thesia I. Garner, and Kathleen Short, "Medical Care Needs in Poverty Thresholds: Problems Posed by the Uninsured," Paper presented at the American Economic Association Meetings, Poverty Measurement Working Paper (U.S.Census Bureau, 2001).
20. Other options using the CE are presented in Banthin and others 2001.
21. Short, Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999, 2001.