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Expanded assistance, material hardship, and helping others during the Covid-19 crisis
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Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children

RSF invites empirical papers that examine heterogeneity in the effects of disruptive events on children's attainment and wellbeing. Given the health, economic, and social upheaval of 2020, this is a crucial time to understand the... More
Expanded assistance, material hardship, and helping others during the Covid-19 crisis

As the Covid-19 pandemic and unemployment persist, many people are at risk of long-term economic distress, though the impacts of the pandemic-induced recession are not spread equally. Using immersive interviews from the American Voices... More
Indirect health consequences of the Covid-19 crisis

The American Voices Project is a nationwide study of how people are doing during these difficult times. It’s a first-of-its-kind study that relies on in-depth immersive interviews delivered to representative samples across the United... More
Job Safety in the Covid-19 Crisis

The pandemic class structure is increasingly built around a divide between face-to-face and remote work. Based on interviews with workers on both sides of this divide, our newest American Voices Project... More
Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop

The Columbia Population Research Center is now accepting applications for a summer workshop designed to familiarize participants with the data in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Applications are now being accepted.... More

	Prime-Age Employment, April 2021	76.9%
	Official Poverty Measure, 2019	10.5%
	Supplemental Poverty Measure, 2019	11.7%
	Deep Poverty (OPM), 2019	4.7%
	90th/10th Percentile of Household Income, 2019	12.6