Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness, and Holes in the Safety Net
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(April 2019) - We examine the consequences of survey underreporting of transfer programs for prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We link administrative data for four transfer programs to the CPS to correct its severe understatement of...


Sander Wagner 86d ago
We mostly measure income 💵 in surveys 📋. How good is the data? Linking 🧍🏾‍♀️🧍🏼 in CPS 📋 to admin data for 4 transfer 🔀 programs shows: - survey sharply ↘️ (underestimates) 🔀 - as a consequences ↘️ poor HH 💵 - ↘️ effectiveness of anti-poverty programs
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