Related Research
Papers
- 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), pp. 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(S): 1180-1220.
Reports
COVID-19 Income and Poverty
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through February 2022 (Updated March 31, 2022)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through January 2022 (Updated February 25, 2022)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through December 2021 (Updated January 22, 2022)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through November 2021 (Updated December 21, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through October 2021 (Updated November 18, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through September 2021 (Updated October 22, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through August 2021 (Updated September 15, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through July 2021 (Updated August 23, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through June 2021 (Updated July 15, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through May 2021 (Updated June 16, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through April 2021 (Updated May 18, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through March 2021 (Updated April 14, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through February 2021 (Updated March 18, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through January 2021 (Released February 17, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through December 2020 (Released January 20, 2021)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through November 2020 (Released December 16, 2020)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through October 2020 (Released November 18, 2020)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through September 2020 (Released October 12, 2020)
- Real-time Poverty Estimates through August 2020 (Released September 11, 2020)
Consumption and Income Poverty
- 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.