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Stabilizing the poverty rate amid Covid-19 with UBI
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Use longitudinal data to estimate the (mis)targeting from means-testing on 2018/2019 income #4

Open MaxGhenis opened 4 years ago

MaxGhenis commented 4 years ago

Means-tested Covid-19 cash transfer proposals are based on 2018 or 2019 income, e.g. the GOP Senate plan.

Start with a transition matrix from eligibility to ineligibility, using either the ASEC (50% of households in any given ASEC are also surveyed the prior year) or the SIPP (longitudinal for up to 4 years, but less data support e.g. from IPUMS; use TPTOTINC for total income).

Then compare the means-tested proposals to UBIs in terms of poverty impact per dollar.

MaxGhenis commented 4 years ago

Info on CPS ASEC linking:

First, drop respondents from the ASEC oversample. Then, in order to create an individual panel dataset, use the variables CPSIDP and YEAR as person ID and time variables, respectively. Note that without any survey attrition or household migration the maximum number of households that are able to be linked in ASEC samples across two consecutive years is 50% of the sample.