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When President Lyndon Johnson enlisted aid from economists, social scientists, and policymakers for his War on Poverty, we still find it difficult four decades later maneuvering through the maze of conceptualizing and measuring poverty (Celllini et al. 2008). Is it time to reevaluate how we measure poverty? Would an alternative technique such as shift share analysis provide a better measure of poverty which could lead to a better understanding of poverty?
The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Vaughan Wingfield, Alison Wiley and Miranda White for their valuable inputs
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Hamilton, G.L., Muldrow, M. (2020). Considering Local Measures of Poverty Using Shift-Share Techniques: A Comparative Analysis. In: Singelmann, J., Poston, Jr, D. (eds) Developments in Demography in the 21st Century. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 48. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26492-5_5
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