Identifying the Poorest Older Americans (2009)
Fisher, Jonathan D., Johnson, David S., Marchand, Joseph T., Smeeding, Timothy M., Torrey, Barbara B.
Objectives Public policies target a subset of the population defined as poor or needy, but rarely are people poor or needy in the same way. This is particularly true among older adults. This study...
Ranking inequality: Applications of multivariate subset selection (2008)
William C. Horrace, Joseph T. Marchand, Timothy M. Smeeding, Timothy M. Smeeding
Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality...
No Place Like Home: Older Adults and Their Housing (2007)
Fisher, Jonathan D., Johnson, David S., Marchand, Joseph T., Smeeding, Timothy M., Torrey, Barbara Boyle
Objectives. The home is both older Americans' largest asset and their largest consumption good. This article employs new data on the consumption and assets of older Americans to investigate what role...
Ranking Inequality: Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection
William C. Horrace, Joseph T. Marchand, Timothy M. Smeeding
Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality...
Ranking Inequality: Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection
William C. Horrace, Joseph T. Marchand, Timothy M. Smeeding
Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality...