Identifying the disadvantaged: Official poverty, consumption poverty, and the new supplemental poverty measure

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 111-136

  Meyer, Bruce D ^a,b   Sullivan, James X ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 84867799486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 08953309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.26.3.111     Document Type: Article

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