A review of some of the tensions that arise from comprehensive community initiatives and the opportunities they present for strengthening evaluative practices.

This paper contributes to the environmental justice literature by addressing several outstanding issues in a single study. Using a cross-time data set that allows us to control for the prevalent "chicken-and-egg" or "which-came-first" problem, we analyze the relative importance of poverty and...

This article reports the health impacts of the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program for the subset of participants who were most likely to spend more time in low-poverty neighborhoods. Using the methodological approach developed by Peck, we find that children whose...

<p>This paper explores unexamined housing costs that families incur by virtue of their low income. We build on a paradigm that identifies some unmeasured costs of being poor as latent (hidden and not counted in other poverty measures) and sequential (consequential with subsequent cost...</p>

This paper addresses a gap in state-level comparative social policy research by analyzing policies that support low-income families with children. Variation in state policy “packages” is measured by considering three characteristics of 11 social programs. Individual measures of policy are...