Experimental poverty measures: accounting for medical expenditures.
The writers describe and compare the size and composition of the poverty population under the official poverty measure and two experimental measures of poverty. The primary focus is a discussion of methods and data used to estimate medical out-of-pocket expenses. The findings show that, while many...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 125; no. 8; pp. 3 - 14 |
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US Department of Labor
August 2002
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