Income Poverty and Multiple Deprivations in a High-Income Country: The Case of the United States

Sophie Mitra and Debra Brucker
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Debra Brucker: New Hampshire University

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Abstract: This paper develops a measure of the joint distribution of multiple deprivations in the United States, in other words a measure of the extent to which different deprivations are experienced by the same individuals. Using Current Population Survey and American Community Survey data, we find that the experience of multiple deprivations affects 15 percent of Americans. We also find that income poverty is not a reliable proxy to measure multiple deprivations: 5.5% of the population, an estimated 17.1 million Americans, experience multiple deprivations while they are not income poor. The odds of experiencing multiple deprivations are two to three times higher for Hispanics, immigrants and persons with disabilities. Further measurement efforts are needed on overlapping multiple deprivations in the US as such measures can be used in policy evaluation and monitoring.

Keywords: multiple deprivations; poverty; multidimensional poverty; United States. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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