Noncash Benefits: Initial Results Show Valuation Methods Differentially Affect the Poor
PEMD-87-7BR
Published: Oct 24, 1986. Publicly Released: Oct 31, 1986.
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In response to a congressional request, GAO examined the alternative methods to value noncash benefits of total federal support for the poor to determine whether: (1) the conceptual, operational, or computational aspects of the methods distort the estimates of poverty derived from them; and (2) if there are such factors, how big their influence is on poverty estimates.
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