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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

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Auditing the Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index in a Changing Marketplace

Frank, Richard G.; Hicks, Andrew; Berndt, Ernst R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index (CPI-Rx) has been the focus of considerable controversy in recent years. The CPI-Rx limits its sampling frame to transactions in retail outpatient outlets, and excludes prescription pharmaceuticals dispensed in hospitals,...

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Comparing Past and Present Inflation

Bolhuis, Marijn A.; Cramer, Judd N. L.; Summers, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

There have been important methodological changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over time. These distort comparisons of inflation from different periods, which have become more prevalent as inflation has risen to 40-year highs. To better contextualize the current run-up in inflation, this...

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Family Trees and Falling Apples : Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men

Buckles, Kasey S.; Price, Joseph; Ward, Zachary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking parents to their adult children. This problem has been especially acute for women, who are more difficult to link...

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Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries

Cavallo, Alberto - 2018

We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely-matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program...

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Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed

McCartan, Cory; Fisher, Robin; Goldin, Jacob; Ho, Daniel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

estimating racial differences in party registration. Finally, we apply the proposed methodology to estimate racial differences in … Service. Open-source software is available which implements the proposed methodology …

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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....

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Weighted Median Inflation Around the World : A Measure of Core Inflation

Ball, Laurence M.; Carvalho, Carlos Viana de; Evans, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass level disaggregation of the CPI over 1990-2021, and...

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Unpacking Social Capital

Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social …

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How Many Americans Work Remotely? : A Survey of Surveys and Their Measurement Issues

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Horton, John J.; Makridis, Christos A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, totaling 53.5 percent. We compare our results with alternative measurement approaches, with a focus on government surveys, and …

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