Papers on Poverty and Poverty Measurement:
Papers on Equivalence Scales:
Memo from Michael and Betson to NAS Poverty Panel (1992)
Is Everything Relative? Equivalence Scales and Poverty Measurement (1996)
Poverty Equivalence Scales (NAS Conference Paper, 2004)
Consumption Patterns of the Poor (1987)
Treatment of Housing Needs in Poverty Measures (1996)
Papers and Speeches on the Treatment of Health Needs in Poverty Measurement:
How much do Americans spend on Health? (1996)
Is it true when you have your health, you have everything? (1998)
Comment on Richard Bavier (1998)
Imputing Medical Out of Pocket Expenditures (Research for Census Bureau, 2001)
Speech to Pan-American Health Organization on Health and Poverty (2003)
Papers Comparing the Poverty Incidence of Children and the Elderly:
Poor Old Folks (1995)
Reassessing Historical Trends in Child Poverty with Jennifer Warlick (APPAM Conference, 1998)
Reshaping the Historical Record with a Comprehensive Poverty Measure with Jennifer Warlick (IRP Conference, 1999)
Depth of Poverty (2001)
General Papers on Poverty Measurement:
Poverty Measurement: Potential Political Pitfalls (Mexico City, 2001)
Assessing the Needs of the Poor (Presentation to APEC in Seoul, South Korea, 2005)
On Measuring Poverty with Jennifer Warlick (2005)