Social, Political, and Economic Inequality

Changing Cash Assistance Rules: Forecasting Effects on State Budgets and the Wellbeing of Low-Income Families

Awarded Scholars:
Gabrielle Pepin,W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Josep Nadal-Fernandez,Michigan State University

Project Date:Jun 2024

Award Amount: $44,861

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Mechanisms and Extent of Penal Inequality

Awarded Scholars:
Joshua Kaiser,University of Massachusetts, Amherst David McElhattan,Purdue University

Project Date:Jun 2024

Award Amount: $74,813

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State-Level Safety Net Investments, Family Economic Wellbeing and Children’s Educational Development Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Awarded Scholars:
Margot Jackson,Brown University Taryn Morrissey,American University

Project Date:Jun 2024

Award Amount: $176,287

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Inequities in the Distribution of Mortgage Distress Following Flood Events

Awarded Scholars:
Jesse Gourevitch,Environmental Defense Fund Carolyn Kousky,Environmental Defense Fund

Project Date:Jun 2024

Award Amount: $176,019

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Optimal Aid Policies: Beyond College Access

Awarded Scholars:
Emily Cook,Tulane University Chao Fu,University of Wisconsin-Madison John R. Stromme,Vanderbilt University

Project Date:Jun 2024

Award Amount: $70,571

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Federal Policy Impacts on Child Poverty

Awarded Scholars:
Natacha Blain,National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Emily Backes,National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Project Date:Jun 2024

Award Amount: $75,000

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Improving the Measurement of Childcare in the Supplemental Poverty Measure

Awarded Scholars:
Christopher Wimer,Columbia University Jane Waldfogel,Columbia University Robert Hartley,Columbia University

Project Date:Mar 2024

Award Amount: $54,738

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Closing the Research Gap on the Social Costs of Incarceration by Extending the NLSY79 Data Infrastructure

Awarded Scholars:
Christopher Wildeman,Duke University Martin Eiermann,Duke University Robert Apel,Rutgers University, Newark

Project Date:Mar 2024

Award Amount: $74,966

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The Parenthood Gap: Firms and Earnings Inequality After Kids

Awarded Scholars:
Brenden Timpe,University of Nebraska, Lincoln Daniel Tannenbaum,University of Nebraska

Project Date:Mar 2024

Award Amount: $193,885

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SNAP Distribution Schedules and Student Standardized Test Score Performance

Awarded Scholars:
Taryn Morrissey,American University Daniel P. Miller,Boston University

Project Date:Mar 2024

Award Amount: $60,000

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