Organizers:

Thesia I. Garner, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Session Chairs:

John A. Bishop, East Carolina University

Papers:

"Developing Thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure"
Thesia I. Garner, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)

"Supplemental Poverty Measure: Preliminary Estimates"
Kathleen Short, U.S. Census Bureau (Contact Author)
Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau

"Interdistributional Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Relationships Among Methods Using Lower Partial Moments of Distributions"
John A. Bishop, East Carolina University (Contact Author)
Jong-Rong Chiou, Tam Kang University
Lester A. Zeager, East Carolina University
Buhong Zheng, University of Colorado Denver

"Parents’ Socioeconomics Status and Children’s Obesity"
Yingying Dong, California State University at Fullerton
Haiyong Liu, East Carolina University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

John A. Bishop, East Carolina University
Hoseong Kim, University of Alabama
Lester A. Zeager, East Carolina University

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