The Poor and the Poorest, 50 years on: Evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s
The Poor and the Poorest, 50 years on: Evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s
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50 年后的穷人和最穷者：来自 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代英国家庭支出调查的证据
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10.1111/rssa.12202
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2017
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Gazeley I
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Gazeley I
我们重新探讨阿贝尔史密斯和汤森的贫困在二战后早期英国的里程碑式的研究。他们发现，1953-1954年至1960年期间，贫困人口大量增加，这是一个相对强劲的经济增长时期。我们的重新审查是对1953-1954年劳动部“家庭支出调查”最近数字化数据的首次利用。首先，我们密切复制他们的结果。我们发现，阿贝尔-史密斯和汤森的方法比其他合理的方法导致贫困率更大的上升。使用当代标准贫困线，我们发现，相对贫困率最多只增长了一点点，绝对贫困率下降，在1953-1954年和1961年之间，在一个真实的收入不断增加和不平等持续的时期，这是可以预期的。我们还将Goodman和Webb的贫困率时间序列扩展到1953-1954年。
We re-explore Abel-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post World War 2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953–1954 and 1960, which was a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first exploitation of the data extracted from the recent digitization of the Ministry of Labour's ‘Enquiry into household expenditure’ in 1953–1954. First we closely replicate their results. We find that Abel-Smith and Townsend's method generated a greater rise in poverty than other reasonable methods. Using contemporary standard poverty lines, we find that the relative poverty rate grew only a little at most, and the absolute poverty rate fell, between 1953–1954 and 1961, as might be expected in a period of rising real incomes and steady inequality. We also extend the poverty rate time series of Goodman and Webb back to 1953–1954.