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Building a 21st century infrastructure for monitoring inequality, developing policy, and training a new generation of leaders
Research Spotlight
A new CPI series profiling our affiliates
Who benefits from gentrification ... and who loses out? Are some groups more likely to be displaced than others? And where do displaced households go when they have to leave? These are the types of questions that motivate CPI affiliate and assistant professor of sociology Jackelyn Hwang. Using a large-scale consumer credit database of residents in Philadelphia, Jackelyn Hwang and Lei Ding recently uncovered troubling racial differentials in the effects of gentrification, yet another consequence of racial inequities in housing.
With her new Changing Cities Research Lab, Jackelyn is now exploring gentrification and residential instability in the Bay Area. In partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the City of Oakland’s Department of Housing and Community Development, her research measures the intensity and spread of gentrification and examines the effect of anti-displacement policies. The goal: To help build timely data-driven policies and strategies to mitigate residential instability.
The Russell Sage Foundation is soliciting proposals from researchers interested in using American Voices Project data (AVP). The AVP is the country’s first platform for conducting qualitative interviews with a nationally representative sample. Proposals are due by January 5, 2022.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is soliciting applications for paid visiting fellowships to examine issues related to job quality and low-wage work in the post-pandemic service economy. Applications are due by October 31, 2021.
The Covid-19 pandemic abruptly halted in-person schooling and sent parents scrambling to manage their children’s education from home. In this report, we use immersive interviews from the American Voices Project to hear directly from families who had to cope with the uncertainties of the new era.
Yale professor Dorceta Taylor and Stanford lecturer Emily Polk explore racial and power dynamics in the history of conservationism and environmentalism.
Tuesday, November 9, 4pm
Featured Research
A selection of poverty and inequality papers recently released by CPI affiliates
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.
