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Research Spotlight

“We typically focus on the immediate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic,” says CPI affiliate Florencia Torche, “but unfortunately it will also have enduring long-term effects on the health and wellbeing of the next generation of Americans.” Why is this? As Florencia went on to discuss, prenatal exposure to large-scale health and economic shocks can alter health at birth, which in turn affects cognition, education, and earnings later in life. As a result, the effects of the pandemic could last decades. Given the unequal impacts of the pandemic, the consequences of Covid-19 on infant health are likely stronger among vulnerable racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Thus the pandemic could exacerbate already wide inequalities in infant health in the United States. 
 
With funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, Torche is examining the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on infant health and investigating disparities by maternal and community characteristics. Using state-level administrative data on births occurring in the United States, Torche and her collaborators aim to provide a comprehensive assessment of the real-time consequences of Covid-19 and reduce the risk to vulnerable populations. Collaborators on this project include professors Jenna Nobles and Felix Elwert at the University of Wisconsin, and Doctor Deirdre Lyell, professor of maternal-fetal medicine also at Stanford.
 
This research builds on Torche’s research agenda that examines the impact of prenatal exposure on individual health and wellbeing. See more:
 

News and Opportunities

Request for Proposals: Washington Center for Equitable Growth

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth has launched its annual competitive grants program. Equitable Growth supports cutting-edge research investigating how inequality, in all its forms, affects economic growth and stability. 
Predoctoral Fellowship: Comprehensive Income Dataset

The Comprehensive Income Dataset Project at the University of Chicago is hiring several pre-doctoral fellows for a two-year term beginning in summer 2022. The project seeks to improve our understanding of the economic wellbeing of the U.S. population by linking government surveys with an unprecedented set of tax records and administrative program data. 
 

Featured Research

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

Germs in the Family: The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread
N. Meltem Daysal, Hui Ding, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Hannes Schwandt – NBER

Monopsony in the Labor Market: New Empirical Results and New Public Policies
Orley C. Ashenfelter, David Card, Henry S. Farber, and Michael Ransom – NBER

Support for Paid Family Leave among Small Employers Increases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ann P. Bartel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher J. Ruhm, Meredith Slopen, and Jane Waldfogel – NBER

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption
Rebecca Diamond and Enrico Moretti – 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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