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Featured Recent Publications by CPI Affiliates
A selection of poverty and inequality papers recently released by CPI affiliates
How Probability Distributions Felled the Case for the Beneficial Effects of Income Inequality
Guillermina Jasso – Social Science Research
Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets
Lucas Gautheron, Raja Marjieh, Dalton C. Conley, Seth Frey, Hannah Rubin, Mike D. Schneider, Ofer Tchernichovski, & Nori Jacoby – arXiv
Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness
Bruce D. Meyer, Angela Wyse, & Douglas Williams – Journal of Public Economics
Parental Investment Across Neighborhood Contexts: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Poverty Reduction
Paul Y. Yoo, Greg J. Duncan, Katherine A. Magnuson, Nathan A. Fox, Lisa A. Gennetian, Kimberly G. Noble, & Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Child Development
The Changing Spatial Pattern of Metropolitan Racial Segregation, 1900–2020: The Rise of Macro-Segregation
H. Jacob Carlson, John R Logan, & Jongho Won – Social Forces
Description, Causal Explanation, and Policy Intervention in Sociology
John H. Goldthorpe – Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology
Rescuing Socialism from Equality
Barry Maguire - MIND
How COVID-19 has Impacted American Attitudes Toward China: A Study on Twitter
Gavin G. Cook, Junming Huang, & Yu Xie – Journal of Contemporary China
Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program
Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Thomas B. Foster, Lawrence F. Katz, Sonya Porter, Matthew Staiger, & Laura Tach – NBER
The Making of an Epidemic of Pain
Daniel Bolger, Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, & Christine Jang-Trettien – Social Problems
The Impact of Preschool Entry Age on Children’s Behavioral and Developmental Health in Medicaid
Maya Rossin-Slater, Adrienne Sabety & Aileen Wu - NBER
The Impact of Immunotherapy on Reductions in Cancer Mortality: Evidence from Medicare
Danea Horn, Abby Alpert, Mark Duggan, & Mireille Jacobson – Journal of Health Economics
Younger Firms and CEOs Allow More Work from Home
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, & Pablo Zarate
The Politics of AI
Nicholas Bloom & Christos Makridis - NBER
Institutional Exclusion: The Cultural Production of Educational Inequality through College Narratives
Michelle Jackson & Christof Brandtner – Social Forces
Scalable Decisions using a Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Approach
Hoiyi Ng & Guido Imbens – arXiv
Economic Crisis and Disillusionment from Socialism: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Ran Abramitzky, Netanel Ben-Porath, Victor Lavy, Michal Palgi – Journal of the European Economic Association
COVID-19 Mitigation Policies were Associated with Increased Gun Violence during 2020-2021
Douglas A. Wolf, Emily W Wiemers, Iliya Gutin, Jennifer Karas Montez,& Shannon M. Monnat – American Journal of Epidemiology
Welfare Benefit Cuts in Early Childhood and Future Educational Outcomes: A Natural Experiment
Dana Shay, Esther Adi-Japha, & Yossi Shavit – Social Forces
Death Penalty
John J. Donohue III – Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity
Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo – The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Education and Midlife Cognitive Functioning: Differing Associations by Childhood Socioeconomic Status?
Fabio Bolz, John Warren, Eric Grodsky & Chandra Muller – Innovation in Aging
Visualizing Vastness: Graphical Methods for Multiverse Analysis
Daniel Krähmer & Cristobal Young – PlosOne
Is the Criminal Legal System Becoming More Gender Egalitarian? The Gender Gap in Criminal Court Case Outcomes in Texas, 1993–2015
Becky Pettit, Kylie Yim, & Lindsay Bing – American Journal of Sociology
From Racialized Punishment to Care and Accountability: Reimagining Justice through a Historically Informed, Racial Equity Lens
Sandra Susan Smith & Felix Owusu – The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing
Overcoming Challenges to Evaluating Child Welfare Programs
Mark Courtney, Serita Cox, Pamela Lilleston, Michael Pergamit, Shannon Quinn, Kris Robles, & Bridgette Lery – Urban Institute
Closing Any Social Security Field Office Would Double the Time It Takes the Average Person to Drive to Their Nearest Office
Jonathan Schwabish, Aaron R. Williams, Gabe Morrison – Urban Institute
Class Mobility in the Era of Rising Inequality: A Synthetic Dynasty Analysis
Geoffrey Wodtke, Weiqi Wang, Kristina Butaeva & Steven N. Durlauf – NBER
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
Mitchell Duneier – Social Problems: Sociology in Action, Third Edition
The Paradox of Inequality that isn’t: Rising Economic Inequality Depresses and Polarises Citizens’ Belief in Meritocracy
Sven Ehmes & Markus Gangl – POLAR
What Happened to the Marriage Alternatives? Same-Sex Couples in the United States and the Distinctiveness of Marriage
Michael J. Rosenfeld, & Alisa Feldman – Journal of Marriage and Family
Who Is LIHTC Built for? The Distribution of Affordable Housing Units by Rents, Tenant Incomes, and Project Features in California
Ann Owens – Housing Policy Debate
Expert Report on Valuation of Controlling Shares of Publicly Traded Companies Under the California Billionaire Tax Act (CBTA)
Brian D. Galle, David Gamage, Emmanuel Saez, & Darien Shanske – University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper
Trapped in Declining Occupations: Barriers to Worker Mobility in a Changing Economy
Xi Song, Jennie E. Brand, Sukie Xiuqi Yang, & Michael Lachanski – Science Advances
Post-COVID-19 Conditions Identified by ICD-10-CM Code in a Cohort of U.S. Primary Care Patients, 2021 – 2023
Xiaoyu Wang, Esther Velásquez, Sharon Saydah, Emilia H. Koumans, Ilia Rochlin, Sebastian Romano, David H. Rehkopf, & Nicole D. Ford - Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences
Domestic Abuse: Improving Risk Assessment
Aadya Bahl, Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier & Ekaterina Oparina – Centre for Economic Performance