Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WP-08-06
The Social and Economic Context of Black Women Living with HIV/AIDS in the United States: Implications for Research
Celeste Watkins-Hayes

WP-07-06
The Racial Geography of State “Child Protection”
Dorothy Roberts

WP-07-01
The Correlates of Work in a Post-AFDC World: The Results from a Longitudinal State-Level Analysis
Dan A. Lewis, Spyros Konstantopoulos, and Lisa Altenbernd

WP-06-17
It’s Not Just About the Money: Govermentality and Resistance in Post-Reform Welfare Offices
Celeste Watkins

WP-06-14
The Multicultural Metropolis: Neighborhood Diversity and Segregation Patterns in the City of Chicago, 1990-2000
Juan Onésimo Sandoval

WP-04-02
Welfare Reform and Economic Freedom: Low-Income Mothers’ Decisions About Work at Home and in the Market
Dorothy E. Roberts

WP-03-05
Empathy or Antipathy? The Consequences of Racially and Socially Diverse Peers on Attitudes and Behaviors
Greg J. Duncan, Johanne Boisjoly, Dan M. Levy, Michael Kremer, and Jacquelynne Eccles

WP-03-06
Women’s Employment Among Blacks, Whites, and Three Groups of Latinas: Do More Privileged Women Have Higher Employment?
Paula England, Carmen Garcia, and Mary Richardson

WP-02-01
Identity, Work, and Welfare Reform: A Qualitative Analysis
Dan A. Lewis, Irene Carvalho, and Bruce Nelson

WP-02-02
Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions
Jeff Dominitz, Charles F. Manski, and Jordan Heinz

WP-02-03
Property and Segregation Norms: An Analysis of the Questionable Role of Racial Restrictive Covenants
Richard R. W. Brooks

WP-02-14
Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

WP-02-15
Alone in the City? An Intellectual History of Social Isolation
Eric Klinenberg

WP-02-28
If Low-Income Blacks Are Given a Chance to Live in White Neighborhoods, Will They Stay? Examining Mobility Patterns with Quasi-Experimental Data
Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-00-14
What Government Can Do About Poverty and Inequality: Global Constraints
Benjamin I. Page, James R. Simmons, and Scott Greer

WP-00-15
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare and Child Protective Services: A Literature Review
Morgan B. Ward Doran and Dorothy E. Roberts

WP-00-16
The Poor and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860
Joseph P. Ferrie

WP-99-14
The PSID and Me
Greg J. Duncan

WP-99-15
Do Low-SES Students Get Less Payoff for their School Efforts?
James E. Rosenbaum and Stefanie DeLuca

WP-98-01
The Role of Values in Determining Welfare Attitudes
Patrick Kulesa and Alice H. Eagly

WP-98-18
Race and Gender in the Labor Market
Joseph G. Altonji and Rebecca M. Blank

WP-98-19
The Ethics of Punishing Indigent Parents
Dorothy Roberts

WP-98-20
Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class
Mary Pattillo-McCoy and Colleen M. Heflin

WP-98-21
The Invisible Black Middle Class
Mary Pattillo-McCoy

WP-98-22
The Changing Nature of Women's Poverty: An Analysis of Two Cohorts of African-American and White Women
Susan Thistle

WP-98-23
How to Distinguish Among Migrants in a Migration Chain: Those Who Are Links and Those Who Build Links
Vilna Bashi

WP-97-01
Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?
Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer

WP-97-02
Political Support for Targeted versus Universalistic Welfare Policies
Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

WP-97-03
Time Limits and Welfare Reform: New Estimates of the Number and Characteristics of Affected Families
Greg J. Duncan, Kathleen Mullan Harris, and Johanne Boisjoly

WP-97-04
The Effects of Violence on Women's Employment
Susan Lloyd

WP-97-05
Economic Impacts of Subsidized Housing Location
Michael P. Johnson and Arthur P. Hurter

WP-97-19
State Hospitals and Community Care
Dan A. Lewis and Rachel L. Anderson

WP-96-01
Do Official Poverty Rates Provide Useful Information About Trends in Children's Economic Welfare?
Christopher Jencks and Susan E. Mayer

WP-96-02
Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?
Greg J. Duncan, Wei-Jun Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Judith Smith

WP-96-03
Welfare, Work, and Choices: Expanding Notions of Policy Incentives
Judith A. Levine

WP-96-04
Single Mothers' Living Arrangements: The Effect of Household Composition on AFDC Participation
Rebecca A. London

WP-96-05
The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers Between Parents and Children
Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi, and Laurence Kotlikoff

WP-96-07
Lake Parc Place: A Study of the First Four Years of a Mixed-Income Housing Program
James E. Rosenbaum, Linda K. Stroh, and Cathy Flynn

WP-96-21
The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms
Rebecca M. Blank

WP-96-22
Initial Welfare Spells: Trends, Events, and Duration, with Implications for Welfare Reform
Johanne Boisjoly, Kathleen Mullan Harris, and Greg J. Duncan

WP-96-23
Vim Will Win: Long-Run Effects of Motivation and Other "Noncognitive" Traits on Success
Greg J. Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, and Dave Knutson

WP-96-24
Personal Bankruptcy in the United States
Ian Domowitz