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Featured Recent Publications by CPI Affiliates
A selection of poverty and inequality papers recently released by CPI affiliates
The Privileged Poor
Anthony Abraham Jack – AMACAD Bulletin
Dynamic Contracting for Payment for Ecosystem Services
Irene Lo & Anushka Murthy – SSRN
Global Working Hours
Amory Gethin & Emmanuel Saez – NBER
Turning Toward the Community: Theory and Evidence for the Role of Community-Oriented Organizations in the Effort to Confront Violence
Patrick Sharkey & Timothy Ittner – Annual Review of Criminology
Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
Jiayi Zhang, Simon Yu, Derek Chong, Anthony Sicilia, Michael R. Tomz, Christopher D. Manning, & Weiyan Shi – ARXiV
Solitary Confinement and Post-Release Drug and Alcohol Test Failure Among Formerly Incarcerated Men on Parole in Pennsylvania (2010–2023)
Claudia N. Anderson, Jessica T. Simes, Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Bruce Western – International Journal of Drug Policy
The Downside of Fertility
Claudia Goldin – NBER
No News is Good News? The Declining Information Value of Broadcast News in America
Johann D. Gaebler, Sean J. Westwood, Shanto Iyengar, & Sharad Goel – PLOS One
Protection for Whom? The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws for Women
Matthias Doepke, Hanno Foerster, Anne Hannusch & Michèle Tertilt – NBER
Latent Polarization
Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, & Romain Wacziarg – NBER
Social Capital, Families, Friendships, and Inter-Generational Mobility
Paul E. Peterson, Angela K. Dills, & M. Danish Shakeel – Journal of Family Issues
Geographic and Racial Disparities in Employment, Earnings, Sanctions, and Re-entries in CalWORKS Amid the COIVD-19 Pandemic
Yu-Ling Chang, Taylor Brown, MinJee Keh – UCBerkely eScholarship
What We Have (Recently) Learned: RC28’s Contributions Over the Last Two Decades
Jennie E. Brand, Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson – SocArXiv
Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market
Julia M. Dennett, Evan J. Soltas, Gopi Shah Goda, Thomas A. Thornhill, Kevin Werner, & Gregg S. Gonsalves – Jama Network |Open
Work From Home and Fertility
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, & Pablo Zarate – Hoover Institution Economic Working Papers
Comparing the Role of Selection in Early Adolescent Substance Use Disparities Related to Single-Mother Family Structures Across Three Affluent Countries
Jared D. Thorpe & Robert Crosnoe – Demography
Virtual Charter Students Have Worse Labor Market Outcomes as Young Adults
Paul Y. Yoo, Thurston Domina, Andrew McEachin, Leah Clark, Hannah Hertenstein, & Andrew M. Penner – Social Science Research
Taxing the Rich: How Incentives and Embeddedness Shape Millionaire Tax Flight
Cristobal Young & Ithai Lurie – American Journal of Sociology
Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions
Andrew Jordan, Ezra Karger, & Derek Neal – Journal of Labor Economics
How a Work-Based Policy Package Can Reduce US Poverty
Kevin Werner & Linda Giannarelli – Urban Institute
Pay Gap Between Nationals and Migrants Mainly Due to Unequal Access to High-Paying Jobs
Are Skeie Hermansen, Andrew Penner, István Boza, Marta M. Elvira, Olivier Godechot, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Feng Hou, Zoltán Lippényi, Trond Petersen, Malte Reichelt, Halil Sabanci, Mirna Safi, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey & Erik Vickstrom – Nature
Labor Supply Response to Windfall Gains
Dimitris Georgarakos, Tullio Jappelli, Geoff Kenny, & Luigi Pistaferri – Journal of Public Economics
The Gender Gap in Career Trajectories: Do Firms Matter?
David Card, Francesco Devicienti, Mariacristina Rossi & Andrea Weber – Italian Economic Journal