CPI Research

We exploit quasi-experimental variation in assignment of rent control to study its impacts on tenants, landlords, and the overall rental market.

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Date:
January, 2018
Author:
Rebecca Diamond, Timothy McQuade, Franklin Qian

As early as the year 2000, randomized experiments with programs that were designed to closely resemble welfare reform showed that although the programs reduced poverty overall, they also increased deep poverty.

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January, 2018
Author:
H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin

For 60 years, AFDC endured as the country’s best-known cash assistance program for the poor, until Congress replaced it in 1997 with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Date:
January, 2018
Author:
Robert A. Moffitt , Stephanie Garlow

In this article, we pose the following question: Has the overall set of changes to the safety net since PRWORA improved outcomes for children?

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Date:
January, 2018
Author:
Janet M. Currie

For those who believe that the 1996 welfare reform bill was mainly oriented toward promoting work, it might be surprising to learn that the bill begins with this line: “Marriage is the foundation of a successful society.” The law provided money for states to implement initiatives promoting health

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Date:
January, 2018
Author:
Daniel T. Lichter

Now is the time for social scientists to focus an analytical lens on the new third generation to see what their experiences reveal about post-1965 assimilation. This paper is a first step.

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Date:
December, 2017
Author:
Tomás R. Jiménez, Julie Park, Juan Pedroza

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy tend to eat more healthfully than the poor in the U.S.

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Date:
December, 2017
Author:
Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé

Although the labor market consequences of incarceration in prison have been central to the literature on mass incarceration, punishment, and inequality, other components of the growing criminal justice system have received less attention from sociologists.

Date:
December, 2017
Author:
David J. Harding, Jonah A Siegel, Jeffrey D. Morenoff

We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in America by using de-identified data on 1.2 million inventors from patent records linked to tax records. We establish three sets of results.

Date:
November, 2017
Author:
Alexander M. Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, John Van Reenen

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate spouses' time to work, leisure, and childcare.

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Date:
November, 2017
Author:
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri, Itay Saporta-Eksten

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