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Multidimensional Poverty in America

The Incidence and Intensity of Deprivation, 2008-2018

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides the first and only rigorous, comprehensive analysis of multidimensional poverty in America

  • Serves to document multidimensional poverty in America and inform associated public policy efforts

  • Provides a census look at US poverty not only over time, but also across different geographic and demographic dimensions

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introducing Multidimensional Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Poverty and Deprivation in America

      • Roger White
      Pages 3-27
    3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty

      • Roger White
      Pages 61-87
  3. America’s Multidimensionally Poor

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
  4. Three Studies of Multidimensional Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
  5. Towards the Elimination of Multidimensional Poverty in America

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 323-333

About this book

This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in the United States and identifies patterns and relationships that contribute to the development of a more complete understanding of the incidence and intensity of deprivation. The first part introduces multidimensional poverty and provides a rationale for viewing poverty through a lens of multiple deprivations. It discusses how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) compares to more narrowly-focused, income-based poverty measures and emphasizes its usefulness and applicability for the formulation of related, welfare-enhancing public policies. The second part documents multidimensional poverty incidence, intensity, and corresponding MPI values at the aggregate level of detail, for various demographic cohorts, and across geographic locales. The book then presents results from an empirical analysis that identifies the determinants of multidimensional poverty incidence and of individual deprivation scores. The third part consists of three studies of multidimensional poverty, examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act on multidimensional poverty incidence and intensity, variation in multidimensional poverty across native- and foreign-born residents (and across immigrants’ home countries) of the US, and variation in the respective indicators that contribute to multidimensional poverty across the life cycle. The book closes with two chapters. The first relays the findings of counterfactual exercises where certain deprivations are assumed to have been eliminated. The final chapter summarizes the work, draws inferences and arrives at conclusions, and discusses the corresponding public policy implications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Whittier College, Whittier, USA

    Roger White

About the author

Roger White is Professor of Economics and Douglas W. Ferguson Chair in International Economics at Whittier College, USA. His research largely focuses on international trade, migration, cultural economics, and economic globalization. White is the author or editor of eight books, and he has published more than forty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multidimensional Poverty in America

  • Book Subtitle: The Incidence and Intensity of Deprivation, 2008-2018

  • Authors: Roger White

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45916-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45915-4Published: 13 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45918-5Published: 14 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45916-1Published: 12 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 333

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Population Economics, Labor Economics, Demography, Social Structure, Social Inequality, North American Economics

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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