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Join the CPI as a Research Fellow!
The CPI is seeking undergraduate fellows for summer 2018 to conduct qualitative research on poverty in California. Fellows will interview low- and middle-income families to understand how Americans are making ends meet today. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning February 1, 2018.
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Matthew Desmond Talks Evictions and Inequality
CPI research group leaders Matthew Desmond and Tomás Jiménez discussed race, inequality, and housing in a recent Facebook Live interview. Desmond won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
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Ending Poverty with Technology. Enroll Now!
Will robots, automation, and technology eliminate work and increase poverty? Or can technology instead be used to reduce—perhaps even end—poverty? Find out in this winter-quarter class in which students work together to imagine and design interventions to reduce poverty.
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Scholar-in-Residence Program
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) invites scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations to apply for its 2018–19 Scholar-in-Residence Program. Scholars will spend one week at IRP or one of its partner centers, including the CPI. Applications are due by February 28, 2018.
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Trends in Academic Performance
Between 1990 and 2015, average academic performance improved for students of all racial and ethnic groups, but grew fastest among black and Hispanic students. The result: White-Black and White-Hispanic achievement gaps declined by 15 to 25 percent.
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Job Training
In this video from our online course on poverty and inequality, CPI affiliate Harry Holzer discusses how job training can improve employment prospects for low-income individuals.
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Policies to Increase Upward Mobility
CPI research group leader Raj Chetty discusses how “moving to opportunity” can increase mobility in this video from his course on using big data to solve social problems.
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13th Annual Kieve Lecture
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta is an American labor leader and activist who cofounded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Hear her speak at this year’s Kieve lecture!
Thursday, January 11, CEMEX Auditorium, 7pm
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Basic Income and Racial Justice
Dorian T. Warren and Mia Birdsong discuss MLK’s perspective on guaranteed income, universal basic income and reparations, the Movement for Black Lives, and much more in this wide-ranging conversation on basic income and racial justice.
Tuesday, January 16, Cubberley Auditorium, 5:30pm
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Do We Do Too Little About Child Abuse—or Too Much?
How do caseworkers and judges decide to remove children from their parents and place them in foster care? How could the system be changed for the better? A conversation with Larissa MacFarquhar, Zabrina Aleguire, and Michael S. Wald.
Thursday, January 25, Stanford Law School, Room 290, 5:30pm
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A selection of poverty and inequality papers recently released by CPI affiliates
Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri, Itay Saporta-Eksten – NBER
Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime
Patrick Sharkey, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, Delaram Takyar – American Sociological Review
The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime
Javier Cano-Urbina, Lance Lochner – NBER
The Promise and Perils of Population Research on Same-Sex Families
Corinne Reczek, Russell Spiker, Hui Liu, and Robert Crosnoe – Demography
Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Alexander M. Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John Van Reenen – NBER
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