Research – Poverty Measurement

Related Research

Papers

Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan. 2023. “Consumption and Income Inequality in the United States since the 1960s,” Journal of Political Economy, 131:2, 247-284.
Han, Jeehoon, Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan. 2022. “Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit,” National Tax Journal, 75:4, 817-846.
Han, Jeehoon, Meyer, Bruce D., and James X. Sullivan. 2021. “The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single mother–headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform,” National Tax Journal, 74:3, 791-824.
Han, Jeehoon, Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan. 2020. “Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, June 2020.
Meyer, Bruce D. and Nikolas Mittag. 2019. “Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11:2 (April), 176-204.
Meyer, Bruce D., Derek Wu, Victoria Mooers and Carla Medalia. 2019. “The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States,” NBER Working Paper No. 25907, May 2019.
Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan “Levels and Changes in Income Poverty, Consumption Poverty and Material Well-Being: A Response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018),” Working Paper, September 2018.
Meyer, B.D., Mok, W.K.C. and Sullivan, J.X. 2015. Household Surveys in Crisis. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29:4, 199–226.
Meyer, B.D. and Sullivan, J.X. 2012a. Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2012, 111-136.
Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan. 2012b. Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall, 133-183.
Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan. 2011a. “Consumption and Income Poverty Over the Business Cycle,” Research in Labor Economics 32, 2011, 51-81.
Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan, 2011b. “Viewpoint: Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption.” Canadian Journal of Economics 44:1, 52-87.
Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan, 2003, “Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption,” Journal of Human Resources 38, 1180-1220.

Reports

Consumption and Income Poverty

Han, Jeehoon, Bruce Meyer and James X. Sullivan. 2023. “Annual Report on U.S. Consumption Poverty: 2022” University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame.
Meyer, B.D. and Sullivan, J.X. 2019. “Annual Report on U.S. Consumption Poverty: 2018” University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame.
Meyer, B.D. and Sullivan, J.X. 2018. “Annual Report on U.S. Consumption Poverty: 2017” University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame.
Meyer, B.D. and Sullivan, J.X. 2017. “Annual Report on U.S. Consumption Poverty: 2016” University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame.

COVID-19 Income and Poverty