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HPC Seminar: Geographic and Temporal Patterns in Covid-19 and Excess Mortality in the United States

Andrew C. Stokes, PhDAssistant Professor of Global Health & Sociology Center for Innovation in Social Science Boston UniversityFounded in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Dr. Stokes created and leads a project focused on quantifying uncounted Covid-19 deaths in local communities across the United States. The project seeks to reveal the hidden death toll […]

HPC Seminar: The Statistical Measurement of Poverty: Income, Consumption, or Expenditure?

Robert Moffitt, PhD Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University Abstract: Most countries, including the US, measure poverty by the fraction of households with income below a specified threshold. Income measures have been criticized on a number of grounds. An alternative measure favored by some economists measures poverty as the fraction whose consumption—as defined using […]