Income, program participation, poverty, and financial vulnerability: Research and data needs

James Ziliak

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2015, issue 1-4, 27-68

Abstract: This paper assesses the data infrastructure needed for future research and policy evaluation on income, program participation, poverty, and financial vulnerability in the United States. I present a broad-based discussion of research needs on the long-term consequences of income inequality and mobility, transfer-program participation and intergenerational dependence, poverty measurement and poverty persistence, and material deprivation. I summarize what information we currently collect in U.S. household panels, highlighting specific challenges such as earnings nonresponse and transfer-income underreporting. I conclude that a first priority is to improve the quality, scale, and scope of currently fielded surveys, including linked survey-administrative data, before embarking on a new longitudinal panel to address research on inequality, poverty, and material well being.

Keywords: Income inequality; intergenerational mobility; material hardship; panel data; nonresponse; top-code (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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