In this paper I propose a class of measures of rank-order segregation, each of which may be used to measure segregation by a continuous (but not necessarily interval-scaled) variable, such as income.
Working Papers
The United States purports to have an unusually strong commitment to equal opportunity, yet surprisingly it hasn't collected the mobility data needed to reliably monitor whether that commitment is being upheld.
Collaboration for Poverty Research Associate Director Christopher Wimer updated the "San Francisco Distress Index" in collaboration with CPI undergraduate fellow Jean Guo and New America Media – tracking how San Franciscans are faring in the Great Recession and beyond.
The decades between 1970 and 2010 bracket a critically important period in the history of race and gender relations in the United States.
Joanna Reed, Paula England, Krystale Littlejohn, and Brooke Conroy examine in-depth interviews with over 50 unmarried women in their twenties to uncover why sexually active men and women who aren't desiring a pregnancy so often fail to practice contraception consistently.
This paper returns to a classic question of political economy – the zero-sum conflict between capital and labor over the division of the national income pie.
The question that animates this paper is whether a standardized protocol for measuring the amount and contours of intergenerational mobility in the United States might usefully be established.
Collaboration for Poverty Research Associate Director Christopher Wimer and CPI graduate fellow Emily Ryo present a new working paper on economic distress in San Francisco: the "San Francisco Distress Index," developed with support from the San Francisco Foundation and New America Media, shows th