Report on Adjusting Poverty Thresholds for Geographic Price Differences
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چکیده
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the proposed Census method for adjusting poverty thresholds for geographic price differences, offer empirically implementable alternatives to the Census approach (including the possibility of making no adjustment at all), and suggest future directions for research on geographic adjustment of poverty thresholds. I am in a particularly good position to do it because Paul Carrillo, Dirk Early, and I have recently produced a panel of price indices for housing services, other produced goods, and all produced goods for all U.S. metropolitan areas and the non-metro part of each state from 1982 through 2010 that will be updated every year and is available together with complete documentation at http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/economics/facultystaff/eoo.html#price . The paper that documents the production of these price indices also compares our housing price index with many other alternatives and reports other comparisons between price indices in the literature. I borrow heavily from this paper because the information in it is highly relevant for the matter at hand.
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