UMD/AEI Poverty Tabulator User's Guide (Draft) (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov, John Coder, and Gordon Green

Books, Monographs, and Papers

Beyond the Safety Net: A Brief Review Forty Years after the War on Poverty (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov

Child Care Data in the Survery of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Excerpt: The SIPP's General Problems (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov, Jeffrey S. Morrow, and Anne Fengyan Shi

Poverty, Welfare Dependency, and the Underclass (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov

Not all female-headed families are created equal (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Alison J. Quin

Op-Eds

The Rio Grande Rises (PDF), The New York Times, October 1, 2007

Douglas J. Besharov

Poor America (PDF), Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2006

Douglas J. Besharov

Broken Yardstick (PDF), The New York Times, September 9, 2005

Nicholas Eberstadt

What about the Poor: the Hope of a New Approach (PDF), The Washington Post, December 3, 1995

Douglas J. Besharov

Unemployment Issues Go Beyond Race (PDF), The New York Times, December 14, 1991

Douglas J. Besharov

Testimony

Measuring Poverty in America (PDF)

U.S. Congress, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee

on Income Security and Family Support, August 1, 2007

Douglas J. Besharov

The Economic Stagnation of the Black Middle Class (PDF)

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, July 15, 2005

Douglas J. Besharov

Expanding the African-American Middle Class: Improving Labor Market Outcomes

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, July 15, 2005

Harry J. Holzer

Conferences

Measuring Poverty after Katrina

Measuring Poverty after Katrina

American Enterprise Institute Press Briefing, August 28, 2006

Douglas J. Besharov

Material Deprivation in Modern America: Looking beyond the "Poverty Rate"

American Enterprise Institute Press Briefing, August 28, 2006

Nicholas Eberstadt

Reconsidering the Federal Poverty Measure Seminar

Seminar 1

Reconsidering the Federal Poverty Measure (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis

Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 1 (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green, with John Iceland

Seminar 2

Can We Fix the Federal Poverty Measure So It Provides Reliable
Information about Changes in Children's Living Conditions? (PDF)

Christopher Jencks, Susan E. Mayer, and Joseph Swingle

Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 2 (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green

Seminar 3

Towards Decisions on a Pre-transfer Poverty Measure (PDF)

Charles Murray

Income Data Quality Issues in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (PDF)

Daniel H. Weinberg

Reductions in Poverty in the 1990s Significantly Greater Than Official Estimates Suggest (PDF)

Joint Economic Committee Democrats, Economic Policy Brief

Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 3 (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green

Seminar 4

Measuring Consumption and Consumption Poverty: Possibilities and Issues (PDF)

David S. Johnson

The Household Arrangements of Hispanics (PDF)

Roberto Suro

Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 4 (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green

Seminar 5

Measuring Poverty: Income Thresholds and Resource Measures (PDF)

Timothy Smeeding

Measuring Poverty: What Should be Counted Where? (PDF)

Patricia Ruggles

Misclassification in an experimental poverty measure (PDF)

Richard Bavier

Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 5 (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green

Seminar 6

Indicators of Deprivation and Well-Being in Modern America (Power Point)

Nicholas Eberstadt

Poverty and Health (Power Point)

Jennifer Madans, Kimberly Lochner, and Diane Makuc

Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 6 (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green

Seminar 7

Tonight's Discussion (Power Point)

Douglas J. Besharov

Alternative Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of Taxes and Transfers (presentation) (Power Point)

Daniel H. Weinberg

Alternative Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of Taxes and Transfers (PDF)

Daniel H. Weinberg

Supplemental Tables - Part 1 - Part 2 (PDF)

Retooling the Poverty Measure (PDF)

Robert D. Reischauer

Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 7 (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green