Measuring Poverty: A New Approach

PANEL ON POVERTY AND FAMILY ASSISTANCE: CONCEPTS, INFORMATION NEEDS, AND MEASUREMENT METHODS

ROBERT T. MICHAEL (Chair ), Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

ANTHONY B. ATKINSON, Nuffield College, Oxford University

DAVID M. BETSON, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

REBECCA M. BLANK, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

LAWRENCE D. BOBO, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN, Center for Young Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University

JOHN F. COGAN, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

SHELDON H. DANZIGER, Institute of Public Policy Studies and School of Social Work, University of Michigan

ANGUS S. DEATON, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

*DAVID T. ELLWOOD, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

JUDITH M. GUERON, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, N.Y.

ROBERT M. HAUSER, Department of Sociology and Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin

FRANKLIN D. WILSON, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin

CONSTANCE F. CITRO, Study Director

NANCY MARITATO, Research Associate

ELAINE REARDON, Research Associate

AGNES E. GASKIN, Senior Project Assistant



*Served until February 1993

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