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Poverty, Inequality, and COVID-19

Stanford scholars weigh in on COVID-19.

Race and Class Inequality in the American Criminal Legal System

CPI affiliate Matthew Clair discusses the role of the criminal legal system in perpetuating racial inequities in the United States.

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Pushing Back Against Racism and Xenophobia on Campuses

CPI research group leader Hazel Markus weighs in on how college educators can have more effective conversations about race.

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Featured Research

A selection of poverty and inequality papers recently released by CPI affiliates

The Decline of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Denmark: Returns to Education, Demographic Change, and Labor Market Experience
David J. Harding and Martin D. Munk – Social Forces

Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: Housing Search Logics and Residential Selection
Hope Harvey, Kelley Fong, Kathryn Edin, and Stefanie DeLuca – Social Forces

Measuring the Effect of Student Loans on College Persistence
David Card and Alex Solis – NBER

Raising the Stakes: Inequality and Testing in the Russian Education System
Michelle Jackson, Tatiana Khavenson, and Tatiana Chirkina – Social Forces

Reducing Exclusionary Attitudes through Interpersonal Conversation: Evidence from Three Field Experiments
Joshua L. Kalla and David E. Broockman – American Political Science Review

Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education
Edna B. Chun and Joe R. Feagin – Social Forces

Two Methods for Studying the Developmental Significance of Family Structure Trajectories
Amanda Pollitt, Sara Mernitz, Robert Crosnoe, and Carol Johnston – Journal of Marriage and Family

Using Disasters to Estimate the Impact of Uncertainty
Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Stephen J. Terry – NBER

Unpacking the Drivers of Racial Disparities in School Suspension and Expulsion
Jayanti Owens and Sara S. McLanahan – Social Forces

COVID-19 Research

COVID-19 Is Also a Reallocation Shock
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis – NBER

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A research center in the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is partly supported by Annie E. Casey Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the Ballmer Group, the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Elfenworks Foundation, the Google.org Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Sunlight Giving.