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Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

News and Opportunities

The Early Childhood Impact Lab

The CPI recently received funding from Stanford Impact Labs to evaluate childhood development programs. This initiative expands upon a long-standing partnership with the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

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Poverty, Inequality, and COVID-19

Stanford and CPI scholars weigh in on COVID-19.

The Time for a Nationwide Eviction Moratorium is Now

In a recent op-ed in The Hill, CPI affiliate Michelle Wilde Anderson calls for government action to prevent a wave of evictions.

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RSF Call for Submissions

The Russell Sage Foundation calls for submissions for a forthcoming journal issue on The Social and Political Impact of COVID-19 in the United States.

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Talks and Events

Supporting Children in the Time of COVID-19

A multidisciplinary virtual conference that brings together researchers, school leaders, and local policymakers to discuss how schools can support students during the pandemic. Register here.

Thursday, August 27, 8:00am

Featured Research

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

Do State Earned Income Tax Credits Increase Participation in the Federal EITC?
David Neumark and Katherine E. Williams – NBER

Do Unemployment Insurance Benefits Improve Match Quality? Evidence from Recent U.S. Recessions
Ammar Farooq, Adriana D. Kugler, and Umberto Muratori – NBER

Family Spillovers in Field of Study
Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth, and Anders Stenberg – NBER

Heterogeneous Effects of Early Algebra across California Middle Schools
Andrew Penner, Thurston Domina, and Andrew McEachin – Journal of Policy and Analysis

Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States
Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan – Quarterly Journal of Economics

Lessons from New York City's Small Schools of Choice about High School Features that Promote Graduation for Disadvantaged Students
Sean Reardon, Pei Zhu, Rebecca Unterman, and Howard Bloom – Journal of Policy and Analysis

The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed
Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt – NBER

Teacher-to-Classroom Assignment and Student Achievement
Bryan S. Graham, Geert Ridder, Petra M. Thiemann, and Gema Zamarro – NBER

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser – Quarterly Journal of Economics

What Places Should We Target, and How?
David Neumark – Journal of Policy and Analysis

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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, the Ballmer Group, the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, 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.