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    Multidimensional Hardships in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    In this paper, for the first time, we provide monthly estimates of multidimensional hardships experienced by Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. We compile data from the Census’s Household Pulse Survey on ...

    Shatakshee Dhongde, Brian Glassman in Social Indicators Research (2023)

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    Analyzing Racial and Ethnic Differences in the USA through the Lens of Multidimensional Poverty

    This paper provides a unified framework for practitioners who wish to estimate alternative indices of multidimensional poverty. These alternative indices are used to estimate multidimensional poverty in the US...

    Shatakshee Dhongde, **aoyu Dong in Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (2022)

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    Spatial and Temporal Trends in Multidimensional Poverty in the United States over the Last Decade

    This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of multidimensional poverty in the United States over the last decade. It provides estimates of multidimensional poverty over more than a decade, from 2008 to 201...

    Shatakshee Dhongde, Robert Haveman in Social Indicators Research (2022)

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    Are countries becoming equally unequal?

    Literature on convergence in inequality is sparse and has almost entirely focused on the notion of testing beta convergence in the Gini indices. In this paper, for the first time, we test for sigma convergence...

    Dustin Chambers, Shatakshee Dhongde in Empirical Economics (2017)

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    Multi-Dimensional Deprivation in the U.S.

    This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of multidimensional deprivation in the U.S. since the Great Recession, from 2008 to 2013. We estimate a Multidimensional Deprivation Index by compiling individual l...

    Shatakshee Dhongde, Robert Haveman in Social Indicators Research (2017)

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    Assessing Multidimensional Deprivation Among the Elderly in the USA

    The number of older adults in the USA is growing rapidly and by 2030 Americans aged 65 years or older will account for roughly 20% of the total population. We estimate multidimensional deprivation among the el...

    Shatakshee Dhongde in Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation (2017)

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    Binary data, hierarchy of attributes, and multidimensional deprivation

    Empirical estimation of multidimensional deprivation measures has gained momentum in the last few years. Several existing measures assume that deprivation dimensions are cardinally measurable, when, in many in...

    Shatakshee Dhongde, Yi Li, Prasanta K. Pattanaik in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2016)

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    On distributional change, pro-poor growth and convergence

    This paper proposes a unified approach to the measurement of distributional change. The framework is used to define indices of inequality in proportional growth rates, convergence, and pro-poorness of growth a...

    Shatakshee Dhongde, Jacques Silber in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2016)