Deprivation in America

Roger White is Professor of Economics and Douglas W. Ferguson Chair in International Economics at Whittier College. White is the author or editor of nine books, including: Intersectionality and Discrimination (2023), Multidimensional Poverty in America (2020), Public Opinion on Economic Globalization (2017), Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation (2017), and Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment (2014).

• Counting What Counts: Moving Beyond Income Poverty to Better Understand Deprivation.- Measuring What Matters: Constructing the Multidimensional Deprivation Index .- Beyond Income Alone: Multidimensional Deprivation in the United States.- Variation in Multidimensional Deprivation by Race, Sex, and Hispanic Ethnicity.- Nativity, Country of Origin, and Multidimensional Deprivation.- Multidimensional Deprivation at the Intersections of Race, Sex, Hispanic Ethnicity, and Nativity.- Multidimensional Deprivation and the Life Cycle: Age-Based Patterns and Trends.- Geographic Patterns of Multidimensional Deprivation.- Estimating the Probability of Multidimensional Deprivation Incidence.- Conclusion: Multidimensional Deprivation and the American Social Contract.