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Building a 21st century infrastructure for monitoring inequality, developing policy, and training a new generation of leaders
 

Research Spotlight

Children from unemployed miners’ homes, West Virginia, 1937

This week’s spotlight scholar, David Rehkopf, is dedicated to understanding how we can build policy that reduces health inequalities over the life course. “My most recent work, and the work I'm most excited about going forward, combines large individual-level health data—whether from traditional panel surveys, electronic health records, or medical claims—with individual-level census data. These linked data are the tool of the future when it comes to understanding the effects of life course social exposures on health,” says Rehkopf, who is a professor in the School of Medicine. In his current research, Rehkopf is examining the effects of New Deal policies on long-term health outcomes and the effects of social and environmental exposures on health and medical care.

The Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, which Rehkopf directs, helps Stanford researchers study the impacts of clinical, social, economic, and environmental exposures on health outcomes. Because these datasets have health-related outcomes on millions of individuals, it becomes possible to detect small effect sizes, to study rare exposures and outcomes, to examine heterogeneous exposure effects across subgroups, and much more.
 

News and Opportunities

National Poverty Fellows Program

The Institute for Research on Poverty is calling for applications for a postdoctoral fellow to be in residence at the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families. Applications are due by December 3, 2021.
 

Talks and Events

How the Other Half Eats

Join the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Center on Poverty and Inequality, and the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society for a conversation with sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh as she discusses her powerful new book on the state of our nation’s food injustices.

Wednesday, December 1, 4pm
The Afterlife of Colonialism

This panel examines the accumulated social, political, and economic events of colonialism that lead to poverty, inequality, or violence today.

Friday, November 19, 12pm
Re-Designing Public Health for Health Equity

A transdisciplinary seminar on what it would take to create a public health system that can respond in a crisis and address persistent inequities in health outcomes.

Monday, December 6, 1pm
 

Featured Research

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

Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid Utilization, Nature of Medical Care, and Duration of Disability
David Neumark and Bogdan Savych – NBER

Inflation, Interest, and the Secular Rise in Wealth Inequality in the U.S.: Is the Fed Responsible?
Edward N. Wolff – NBER

Medication of Postpartum Depression and Maternal Outcomes: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Dutch Prescribing
Janet Currie and Esmée Zwiers – NBER

On the Persistence of the China Shock
David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson – 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, 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.

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