Index

2006  |   2005  |   2004  |   2003

Micro-simulating Child Poverty in Great Britain in 2010 and 2020. Mike Brewer, Institute for Fiscal Studies; and James Browne, Institute for Fiscal Studies; and Professor Holly Sutherland, Institute for Economic and Social Research, University of Essex (#06-31)

Developmental Health Effects of Human Development Policies. Daniel P. Keating, University of Michigan and Sharon Z. Simonton, University of Michigan (#06-30)

How Well Can We Measure the Well-Being of the Poor Using Food Expenditure? Thomas DeLeire, Michigan State University and Congressional Budget Office; and Helen Levy, University of Michigan (06-29)

The Effects of Welfare and Child Support Policies on Maternal Health and Wellbeing. Jean Knab, Princeton University; Irv Garfinkel, Columbia University; and Sara McLanahan, Princeton University (#06-28)

Income Support Policies and Health among the Elderly. Pamela Herd, University of Wisconsin, Madison; James House, University of Michigan; and Robert F. Schoeni, University of Michigan (#06-27)

Macroeconomic Conditions, Health and Government Policy. Christopher J. Ruhm, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and NBER (#06-26)

Lifting Gates--Lengthening Lives: Did Civil Rights Policies Improve the Health of African-American Women in the 1960's and 1970's? George Kaplan, University of Michigan; Nalini Ranjit, University of Michigan; Sarah Burgard, University of Michigan (#06-25)

Redlining Or Risk? A Spatial Analysis of Auto Insurance Rates in Los Angeles. Paul M. Ong, School of Public Affairs, UCLA; and Michael A. Stoll, School of Public Affairs, UCLA (#06-24)

Can Ethnicity Transcend Race and Poverty? Insights from Source Country Variation in Immigrant Student. Achievement Dylan Conger, School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University (#06-23)

The Effects of Male Incarceration Dynamics on AIDS Infection Rates among African-American Women and Men. Rucker C. Johnson, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; Steven Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley (#06-22)

Socioeconomic Gradients in Early Child Health Across Race, Ethnicity and Nativity. Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Columbia University (#06-21)  

Did the Introduction of Food Stamps Affect Birth Outcomes in California? Janet Currie, Columbia University; Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley (#06-20)

Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence. David Cutler, Harvard University; Adriana Lleras-Muney, Princeton University (#06-19)

Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Duration of Children’s Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence. Jeffrey M. Timberlake, University of Cincinnati (#06-18)

The Incidence Of Poverty Across Three Generations Of Black And White Immigrants In The Post Civil Rights Era: Assessing The Impacts Of Race And Ancestry. Amon Emeka, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California (#06-17)

Poverty, Migration and Health. David R. Williams, Departments of Sociology and Epidemiology, and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan; Selina A. Mohammed, Women’s Health Disparities, School of Nursing, University of Michigan (#06-16)

Race, Poverty and Punishment: The Impact Of Criminal Sanctions On Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Inequality. Darren Wheelock, University of Minnesota; Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota (#06-15)

Race, Place and Poverty Revisited. Michael A. Stoll, UCLA (#06-14)

Coloring the Terms of Membership: Reinventing the Divided Citizenry in an Era of Neoliberal Paternalism. Joe Soss, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin; Sanford F. Schram, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College (#06-13)

Can Social Capital Explain Persistent Racial Poverty Gaps? Lincoln Quillian, Northwestern University; Rozlyn Redd, University of Wisconsin at Madison (#06-12)

The Dynamics of Discrimination. Devah Pager, Princeton University (#06-11)

How Culture Matters for Poverty: Thickening our Understanding. Michèle Lamont, Harvard University; Mario Luis Small, Princeton University (#06-10)

How Educational Inequality Develops. George Farkas, Department of Sociology and Population Research Institute Pennsylvania State University (#06-09)

Justifying Inequality: A Social Psychological Analysis of Beliefs about Poverty and the Poor. Heather Bullock, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz (#06-08)

Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime? Neeraj Kaushal, Columbia University; Qin Gao, Fordham University; Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University (#06-07)

The Consequences of Recent Job Growth on Older Low Income Workers. William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University (#06-06)

Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Daniel O. Beltran, University of California—Santa Cruz; Kuntal K. Das, University of California—Santa Cruz; Robert W. Fairlie, University of California—Santa Cruz (#06-05)

Studying Consumption with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Comparisons with the Consumer Expenditure Survey and an Application to the Intergenerational Transmission of Well-being. Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan, Geng Li, Federal Reserve Board; Robert F. Schoeni, University of Michigan (#06-4)

Affirmative Action: What Do We Know? Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Urban Institute; David Neumark, Public Policy Institute of California, University of California at Irvine, National Bureau of Economic Research, IZA–Institute for the Study of Labor (#06-3)

Measuring the Extent and Depth of Food Insecurity: An Application to American Indians in the United States Craig Gundersen, Iowa State University (#06-2)

Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Daniel O. Beltran University of California, Santa Cruz; Kuntal K. Das University of California, Santa Cruz; Robert W. Fairlie University of California, Santa Cruz, National Poverty Center and IZA (#06-1)

Note: many of our Working Papers were developed with funding from sources other than the NPC.

Related Resources

In addition to providing support for the National Poverty Center, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funds three Area Poverty Research Centers. Each area center tackles poverty-related issues of regional or state interest. Like the National Poverty Center, the area centers seek to improve our understanding of the nature, causes, correlates, and consequences of poverty and to inform program and policies to alleviate poverty.

Follow the links below to reach the Working Paper Series of the three Area Research Centers:

The Institute for Research on Poverty's (IRP) Area Poverty Research Center (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Research and analysis of poverty and antipoverty policies in the upper Midwest

The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research

Research on poverty and inequality in the southern United States

The Rural Poverty Research Center (University of Missouri and Oregon State University)

Seeking to understand how policy and practice can reduce poverty across the rural-urban continuum