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Featured Recent Publications by CPI Affiliates
What is Wrong with Inequality?
Debra Satz & Stuart White – Oxford Open Economics
Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income
Sarah Miller, Elizabeth Rhodes, Alexander W. Bartik, David E. Broockman, Patrick K. Krause, & Eva Vivalt – NBER
The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City
Jeremy Freese – University of Chicago Press
Flying Blind on Job Creation Policies? A Case Study of California
David Neumark & Emma Wohl – Economic Development Quarterly
Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco
Nima Dahir & Jackelyn Hwang – City & Community
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children's Outcomes?
Marianne E. Page – Journal of Economic Literature
How Culturally Wise Psychological Interventions Help Reduce Poverty
Catherine Cole Thomas, Patrick Premand, Thomas Bossuroy, Soumaila Abdoulaye Sambo,Hazel Markus, & Gregory Walton – Policy Research Working Paper Series
Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation: Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation
Bruce D. Meyer, Angela Wyse, Gillian Meyer, Alexa Grunwaldt,& Derek Wu – NBER
Parenthood Matters: The Institutional Surveillance of U.S. Latinos by Citizenship and Parental Status
Asad L. Asad – Immigration Policy and Immigrant Families
Yes, College is Worth It
Luke Pardue & Phillip Levine – Brookings
Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility
Raj Chetty, Will S. Dobbie, Benjamin Goldman, Sonya Porter, & Crystal Yang – NBER
The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence From Two U.S. States
Eva Vivalt, Elizabeth Rhodes, Alexander Bartik, David Broockman, & Sarah Miller – NBER
Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Employment: Evidence From the Baby’s First Years Study
Maria Sauval, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Katherine A. Magnuson, Nathan A. Fox, Kimberly G. Noble, & Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Journal of Public Economics
Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kahani, & Adam Sacarny – The Journal of Economics and Statistics
The U.S. Low-Wage Structure: A McWage Comparison
Orley C. Ashenfelter & Štěpán Jurajda – NBER
Extreme Events, Educational Aspirations, and Long-Term Outcomes
René Iwo, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Cecep Sumantri, & Duncan Thomas – Population and Environment
Comparing Neighbors and Friends in Age-Related Network Changes
Matthijs Kalmijn – Journals of Gerontology
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity
Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo – NBER
Income Inequality and Income Poverty in a Cross-National Perspective
Janet C Gornick – Oxford Open Economics
Do Female Owned Employment Agencies Mitigate Discrimination and Expand Opportunity for Women?
Jennifer Hunt & Carolyn Moehling – NBER
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice
Peter Bergman, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, & Christopher Palmer – The American Economic Review
Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence From the Food Stamps Program
Martha J Bailey, Hilary Hoynes, Maya Rossin-Slater, & Reed Walker – The Review of Economic Studies
Diversifying Gender Categories and the Sex/Gender System
Cecilia L. Ridgeway & Aliya Saperstein – Annual Review of Sociology
Life Expectancy Reversals in Low-Mortality Populations
Joshua R. Goldstein & Ronald D. Lee – Population and Development Review
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification
Florencia Torche & Jenna Nobles – Annual Review of Sociology
More Than a Match: “Fit” as a Tool in Hiring Decisions
Bethany J. Nichols, David S. Pedulla, & Jeff T. Sheng – Work and Occupations
TikTok and US Public Opinion
Jonathan Kelley, MDR Evans, & Charlotte Corday – OSF Reprints, Center for Open Science
Domestic Violence Reports and the Mental Health and Well-Being of Victims and Their Children
Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine V. Løken, & Magne Mogstad – The Journal of Human Resources
Unsettled Science on Longer-run Effects of Early Education
Margaret Burchinal, Anamarie Whitaker, Jade Jenkins, Drew Bailey, Tyler Watts, Greg Duncan, & Emma Hart – Science
The Effects of Social Mobility
Richard Breen & John Ermisch – Sociological Science