Trickling Down: The Relationship Between Economic Growth and the Extent of Poverty Among American Families

1 November 1964

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Vol. 78 (4) , 511-524
https://doi.org/10.2307/1879653

Abstract

Introduction, 511. — Income growth and distribution, 513. — The incidence of poverty and its changes, 514. — Measuring the poverty curve, 515. — Subgroup poverty curves, 517. — Poverty status of population subgroups, 1959, 519. — The elasticity of subgroup incomes with respect to economic growth, 521. — Conclusions, 523.

Keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH
TRICKLING
POVERTY CURVE
ELASTICITY
FAMILIES INTRODUCTION
SUBGROUP POVERTY
SUBGROUP INCOMES
POVERTY STATUS

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