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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities
Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...
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The Impact of Comprehensive Student Support on Crime : Evidence from the Pathways to Education Program
Lavecchia, Adam; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study finds substantial reductions to criminal activity from the introduction of a comprehensive high school support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching,...
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Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes : Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447294
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Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time : Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wrap-Around Services
Evans, William N.; Kolka, Shawna; Sullivan, James X.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Families in poverty face numerous barriers to establishing stable economic footing. This paper examines the effect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226189
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What Drives (Gaps in) Scientific Study Participation? Evidence from a COVID-19 Antibody Survey
Dutz, Deniz; Greenstone, Michael; Hortaçsu, Ali; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Underrepresentation of minority and poor households in scientific studies undermines policy decisions and public health. We study data from a serological study that randomized participation incentives. Participation is low (6% at $0, 17% at $100, 29% at $500) and unequal: minority and poor...
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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning
Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...
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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data
Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this population for the United States has historically been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287362
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362025
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Growth Elasticities of Poverty Reduction
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362055
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Down and Out in North America : Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada
Hanratty, Maria J. - 1990
This paper documents the striking difference in U. S. and Canadian poverty trends from 1970 to 1986. While U.S. poverty … has shown no consistent trend since 1970, Canadian poverty decreased by 60%. This paper examines why U. S. and Canadian … poverty trends differed during two periods: 1970-1979 and 1979-1986. During the 1970s, we find that the principle reason for …
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