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CPI Appoints New Executive Director
We are very pleased to announce that Sara Kimberlin has been appointed as a Senior Research Scholar and as CPI's Executive Director.  One of the country's top scholars of poverty, Sara was trained at Harvard University and UC-Berkeley, served as a research consultant at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, and most recently was Senior Policy Fellow at the California Budget and Policy Center.  She played an influential role in developing California's go-to measure of poverty (the California Poverty Measure), has published a host of key studies of poverty dynamics, homelessness, and safety net policy, and has authored numerous policy blueprints for national and state-level policymakers.  Welcome Sara! 
CPI Appoints New Research Scholar

The CPI has also appointed Josh Leung-Gagne as a Research Scholar charged with overseeing the CPI’s projects on occupation mobility, wealth mobility, and much more.  A recent Stanford PhD, Josh has published important papers on income segregation, mobility prediction, and research methods for analyzing residential segregation. Welcome Josh!

Basic Income Lab joins CPI

We’re excited to announce that the Stanford Basic Income Lab (BIL) has joined the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Founded by former Stanford philosophy professor Juliana Bidadanure (who will continue to serve as a Senior Advisor to the lab), and led by Sean Kline, BIL is a leading online repository of data about basic income programs in the US and globally. The Basic Income Lab is perhaps best known among policymakers and practitioners for its “basic income toolkit,” which has informed the design and implementation of pilots and experiments across the U.S. At the end of 2022, BIL also launched the Guaranteed Income Pilots Dashboard, a first-of-its-kind resource that visualizes data from rigorous evaluations of 30+ guaranteed income pilots across the United States. Welcome Sean!

News and Opportunities

New California Poverty Data Released

The latest data on poverty in California, as measured by the California Poverty Measure have just been released. These new data present poverty estimates for California for the first quarter of 2023 using a robust approach to measuring poverty modeled on the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure. This new measure, a joint research project of the CPI and the Public Policy Institute of California, significantly improves on the traditional official poverty measure. Links to the latest California Poverty Measure data for counties, legislative districts, demographic subgroups, and the state overall can be accessed through the CPI’s website.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

The Department of Sociology at Princeton University seeks applicants for postdoctoral and senior research associate positions in the Eviction Lab. Successful candidates will have a Ph.D. and a background in statistics, quantitative social science, data science, economics, and/or computer science.   

Call for Applications

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and the University of California-Davis's Center for Poverty & Inequality Research (CPIR) invite applications to participate in an early-career mentoring convening. This weeklong convening (June 3-7, 2024) in Davis, CA will provide mentoring and career development opportunities to early-stage scholars who will be future leaders in supporting populations that are underrepresented among academic researchers.

Call For Articles - RSF Foundation

The Russell Sage Foundation is inviting papers for a journal issue addressing questions about the labor market choices, career trajectories, and mobility strategies of Asians in America. Proposals are due on December 11, 2023.

Featured Research

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


Offers versus Wages: Gender Differences in Pay at the Point of Hire
Shiya Wang and Adina D. Sterling – Academy of Management
 
Where the Data Meets the Road in the Industry 4.0 Economy  
Domenico Parisi, Jonathan Barlow, Merrill Warkentin – Journal of Intellectual Capital
 
The Balancing Act: Corporate Norms & Practices that Affect Work-Life Balance  
Heather Haveman and Jasmine Sanders – Academy of Management

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Raj Chetty, David J. Deming & John N. Friedman – NBER
 
Child-driven Parenting: Differential Early Childhood Investment by Offspring Genotype
Asta Breinholt and Dalton Conley – Social Forces, Oxford Academic
 
Poverty in Early Childhood and Future Educational Achievements
Dana Shay, Yossi Shavit, and Issac Sasson – Taylor & Francis
 
What Did UWE Do for Economics?
Tatyana Avilova and Claudia Goldin – NBER
 
Certification and Recertification in Welfare Programs: What Happens When Automation Goes Wrong?
Derek Wu and Bruce D. Meyer – NBER
 
The Impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on Educational Attainment: Reasoning about Unobserved Mechanisms from Temporal Patterns of Indirect Effects
Remy Pages, Drew H. Bailey and Greg J. Duncan – ScienceDirect
 
Are Connections the Way to Get Ahead? Social Capital, Student Achievement, Friendships, and Social Mobility. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series
Paul E. Peterson, Angela K. Dills, Danish M. Shakeel Shakeel – Institute of Education Sciences
 
The US COVID-19 Baby Bust and Rebound
Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine – Journal of Population Economics
 
Identification in Interaction: Racial Mirroring between Interviewers and Respondents
Robert E.M. Pickett, Aliya Saperstein, and Andrew M. Penner – Social Forces, Oxford Academic
 
Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates
Jennie E. Brand – Russell Sage Foundation
 
The Evolution of Working from Home
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis – Policy Commons
 
Continuing Complexity: The University Careers of a Scientific Elite in Relation to their Class Origins and Schooling
Erzebet Bukodi,  John H. Goldthorpe, and Inga Steinberg – British Journal of Sociology
 
Differentiated legality: Understanding the Sources of Immigrants’ Deportation Fear
Roger Waldinger, Nathan I. Hoffmann, and Tianjian Lai – Ethnic and Racial Studies
 
Reflections on the Field of Socio-Economics  
Marion Fourcade, Jens Beckert, Neil Fligstein, and Bruce G. Carruthers – Socio-Economic Review
 
To What Extent are Trends in Teen Mental Health Driven by Changes in Reporting? The Example of Suicide-Related Hospital Visits
Adriana Corredor-Waldron and Janet Currie – NBER
 
Regulating Transformative Technologies
Daron Acemoglu & Todd Lensman – NBER
 
Experimenting with Experiments: a ‘Shandean’ Approach
Paul M. Sniderman – Sage Journals
 
An Ecological Model of Task Disruption: The Impact of Partial Automation of Jobs through AI
Matissa Hollister, Arvind Karunakaran, and Lisa Ellen Cohen – Academy of Management
 
Foster Care, Postsecondary Education, and Financial Aid in California: How Affordable Is Postsecondary Education for Young People with a Foster Care History in California?
Laura Packard Tucker, Devlin Hanson, Michael Pergamit, Jonah Norwitt, and Shannon Gedo – Urban Institute
 
The Location of Economic Development Administration Grants
Brett Theodos, Daniel Teles, Tanay Nunna, Christopher Davis, Christina Plerhoples Stacy, and Jonathan Schwabish – Policy Commons
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