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Featured Recent Publications by CPI Affiliates
A selection of poverty and inequality papers recently released by CPI affiliates
The Meaning of Success: Ethno-Gendered Reactions to Discrimination at Work
Erez Aharon Marantz, Alexandra Kalev, Noah Lewin-Epstein, & Kathleen Gerson – Social Problems
How Culturally Wise Psychological Interventions Can Help Reduce Poverty
Catherine C. Thomas, Patrick Premand, Thomas Bossuroy, & Gregory M. Walton – Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Spatial Networks of Neighborhood Violence
Mohammed Aleinzi, Patrick Sharkey, Gwilym Pryce, & Nathan Hughes – Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War
Michael Tomz & Jessica L. P. Weeks – American Political Science Review
More Than a Match: “Fit” as a Tool in Hiring Decisions
Bethany J. Nichols, David S. Pedulla, & Jeff T. Sheng – The Sociological Review
School Equalization in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and Consequences of Resource Disparity in Mississippi Circa 1940
David Card, Leah Clark, Ciprian Domnisoru, & Lowell Taylor – Journal of Public Economics
Bayesian Projection of Extant Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations
Herbert P. Susmann & Adrian E. Raftery – Demography
Built Environment Disparities are Amplified During Extreme Weather Recovery
Tianyuan Huang, Chad Zanocco, Zhecheng Wang, Jackelyn Hwang, & Ram Rajagopal – Nature
Middle-class Economic Power and the Evolution of Educational Systems
Natalie A.E. Young & Emily Hannum – Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Misaligned by Design: Incentive Failures in Machine Learning
David Autor, Andrew Caplin, Daniel J. Martin, & Philip Marx – NBER
Reimagining Black Safety: A Collaborative Community-Based Study
Mary Patillo, Alaina Bloodworth, Jasmine Perkins, Katelyn Johnson, Gabby Green, Lorne Runnels, Karlia Brown, Madeleine Tutwiler, Durrell Washington, & Rose Werth – Souls
Individual-, Institutional-, and Societal-Level Factors and their Interactions in the Association between Minority Ethnicity and Self-Reported Health Outcomes in China, 2010–2021: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
Junjie Lu, Jiarui Yang, Jingyu Zhong, Lumin Liu, & David H. Rehkopf – BMC Public Health
Gun Laws and Justifiable Homicides: Contrasting Impacts on Civilians and Police
Ivan Ribeiro, Julio Trecenti, Nelson Coelho, Jessica Maruyama, Abhay Aneja, & John Donohue – Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
Review of “What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic”
Cristobal Young – Social Forces
Cash Transfers in the Perinatal Period and Child Welfare System Involvement Among Infants: Evidence from the Rx Kids Program in Flint, Michigan
Sumit Agarwal, H. Luke Shaefer, Samiul Jubaed, William Schneider, Eric Finegood, Mona Hanna - ARXIV
Class Politics: Dealignment, Realignment, and the Role of Parties
Geoffrey Evans – The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification
Increasingly Polarized? Inequality, Prosperity, and Perceived Socioeconomic Conflict in Advanced Economies (1987–2019)
Cristian Márquez Romo, Simon Bienstman, & Markus Gangl – European Sociological Review
Intersectional Gender and Race in Interaction and Inequality: An Updated Account for Group Processes
Cecilia L. Ridgeway – Advances in Group Processes
Beyond the Cradle: Effects of Family Income in the First 1,000 Days on Educational Achievement Later in Life
Dana Shay, Yossi Shavit, & Isaac Sasson – European Sociological Review
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, & Justin Wolfers – American Economic Review
Social Security Interactions With Child Tax Credit Expansion
Jevay Grooms, Madelaine L'Esperance, & Timothy Smeeding – Poverty & Public Policy
Chronic Disease and Aging-Related Risk Factors in Multiracial Subgroups: California, 2014–2023
Tracy Lam-Hine, Michelle C. Odden, Aliya Saperstein, Tainayah W. Thomas, & David H. Rehkopf – Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
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
Do the Poor Pay More for Housing?
Matthew Desmond & Nathan Wilmers – Open Access MIT
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking
G. Agustin Markarian, Jacob S. Hacker, Mackenzie Lockhart, & Zoltan Hajnal – American Political Science Review
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, & Sonya R. Porter – American Economic Review
A New Look at Mixed-Heritage People in the United States
C. Matthew Snipp – Ethnic and Racial Studies
Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments
Elizabeth Caucutt, Lance Lochner, Joseph Mullins, & Youngmin Park – Journal of Political Economy
Unresolved Conflict in Workers' Compensation: The Impact of Legal Representation on Workers' Compensation Benefits
Bogdan Savych, & David Neumark – Journal of Risk and Insurance
High-Leverage Sociological Concepts and the Progress of Theory, Part One
Steven Brint – Theory and Society