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

Spotlights

A New Poverty Measure for California

The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is using linked population datasets to build a second-generation poverty measure that provides high-resolution poverty measurement and improves California's capacity to assess the effects of safety net policies. To assist with this new project, the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is seeking a predoctoral research assistant skilled in quantitative analysis and programming in R and STATA. 

Reviewing begins on March 1, 2023

News and Opportunities

Work + Social Inequality Research Fellow Opportunity

Professors David Pedulla and Daniel Schneider are recruiting a full-time predoctoral research fellow, starting in summer 2023, to participate in survey and experimental projects related to work and social inequality. The fellow will assist with data cleaning, data analysis, and producing research reports and papers.

Applications due on March 1, 2023

Qualitative Researcher Position
 
OpenResearch, a non-profit research organization, is seeking a qualitative researcher for their Basic Income Study. The position offers flexible hours and the ability to work remotely. 

Application review beginning on March 1, 2023

Economic Mobility Fellowship Opportunity


The Institute for Research on Poverty is calling for applications for master’s-level fellowships starting in the summer of 2023. Fellowships are for one year, with the possibility of an extension for an additional year.
 
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a final deadline of March 20, 2023
Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship 
 
The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University is pleased to announce the 2023 CITP Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship. This fellowship is targeted to rising juniors and seniors interested in first-hand experience in technology policy at the federal, state and local level.

Applications due by Friday, February 24, 2023

Featured Research

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

The Great Interstate Divergence: Partisan Bureaucracies in the Contemporary United States
Ben Merriman & Josh Pacewicz – American Journal of Sociology
 
The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector
Mark Duggan, Atul Gupta, Emilie Jackson, & Zachary S. Templeton – NBER
 
Social Incentives, Delivery Agents, and the Effectiveness of Development Interventions
Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Erika Deserranno, Ricardo Morel, Munshi Sulaiman, & Imran Rasul – Journal of Political Economy
 
When Behavioral Barriers are too High or Low–How Timing Matters for Text-Based Parenting Interventions
 Kalena E. Cortes, Hans Fricke, Susanna Loeb, David S. Song, & Benjamin N. York – Economics of Education Review
 
The Democratic State and Redistribution: Whose Interests Are Served?
Mads Andreas Elkjaer & Torben Iversen – American Political Science Review
 
Surviving in Crisis Mode: The Effect of Material Hardship and Social Support on Emotional Wellbeing Among People in Poverty During COVID-19
Alisa C. Lewin, Michal Shamai, & Sharon Novikov – Social Indicators Research
 
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality
Janet Currie, John Voorheis, & Reed Walker –  American Economic Review
 
Researcher Reasoning Meets Computational Capacity: Machine Learning for Social Science
Ian Lundberg, Jennie E.  Brand, & Nanaum Jeon – Social Science Research 108, 102807, 2022

Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope: New Essays on the Work of Cornel West
Edited by Barbara Will – University of Pennsylvania Press
 
Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse
Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier, & Koen Sanders – NBER
 
Evidence on Measures to Reduce Excessive Use of Force by the Police
Trevor Bechtel, Mara C. Ostfeld, & H. Luke Shaefer – NaN
 
Who Moved and Where Did They Go? An Analysis of Residential Moving Patterns in King County, WA Between 2002–2017
Jackelyn Hwang & Bina P. Shrimali – Community Development Research Brief
 
COVID-19 Housing Policy: State and Federal Eviction Moratoria and Supportive Measures in the United States During the Pandemic
Emily A. Benfer, Robert Koehler, Alyx Mark, Valerie Nazzaro, Anne Kat Alexander, Peter Hepburn, Danya Keene, & Matthew Desmond – Community, Work & Family
 
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Employers: Evidence from New York
Ann Bartel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher Ruhm, Meredith Slopen, & Jane Waldfogel – Community, Work & Family
 
Pervasive Signaling
B. Douglas Bernheim & Aaron L. Bodoh-Creed – Theoretical Economics
 
Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Sandra E. Black, Jeffrey T. Denning, & Jesse Rothstein – American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
 
Vocational Education, Tertiary Education, and Skill Use Across Career Stages
Wiebke Schulz, Heike Solga, & Reinhard Pollak – European Sociological Review
 
Wealth and Divorce
Alexandra Killewald, Angela Lee, & Paula England – Demography
 
Distinctive Negative Reactions to Intermediate Social Groups
Sara E. Burke, Sylvia P. Perry, John F. Dovidio, & Marianne LaFrance – Journal of Applied Social Psychology
 
Adverse Childhood Experiences among Reproductive Age Women: Findings from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Laura Hurley, Audrey Stillerman, Joe Feinglass, & Christine Percheski – Women's Health Issues
 
Time Savings When Working from Home
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, & Pablo Zarate – University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper
like us on Facebook like us on Facebook
follow us on Twitter follow us on Twitter
subscribe on YouTube subscribe on YouTube

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 the Ballmer Group, the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Elfenworks Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, Stanford Impact Labs, and WorkRise.

Copyright © 2022 Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you expressed interest in the Stanford CPI, attended one of our events, or signed up to receive occasional news.

Our mailing address is:
Center on Poverty and Inequality
Stanford University
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 370
Stanford, CA  94305

inequality@stanford.edu

unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences