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Poverty, Race and Inequality Working Papers

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WP-02-14 Measuring the well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan
WP-02-15 Alone in the City? An Intellectual History of Social Isolation
Eric Klinenberg
WP-00-14 What Government Can Do About Poverty and Inquality: Global Constraints
Benjamin I. Page, James Simmons and Scott Greer
WP-00-15 The Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare and Child Protective Services: A Literature Review
Morgan B. Ward Doran and Dorothy E. Roberts
WP-00-16 The Poor and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860
Josept P. Ferrie
WP-98-1 The Role of Values in Determining Welfare Attitudes
Patrick Kulesa and Alice H. Eagly
WP-98-18 Race and Gender in the Labor Market
Joseph G. Altonji and Rebecca M. Blank
WP-98-19 The Ethics of Punishing Indigent Parents
Dorothy E. Roberts
WP-98-20 Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class
Mary Pattillo-McCoy and Colleen M. Heflin
WP-98-21 The Invisible Black Middle Class
Mary Pattillo-McCoy
WP-98-22 The Changing Nature of Women's Poverty: An Analysis of Two Cohorts of African-American and White Women
Susan Thistle
WP-98-23 How to Distinguish Among Migrants in a Migration Chain: Those Who Are Links and Those Who Build Links
Vilna Bashi
WP-97-1 Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self- Employment?
Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer
WP-97-2 Political Support for Targeted versus Universalistic Welfare Policies
Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein
WP-97-18 Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Joseph G. Altonji and Charles R. Pierret
WP-97-19 State Hospitals and Community Care
Dan A. Lewis and Rachel L. Anderson
WP-96-1 Do Official Poverty Rates Provide Useful Information About Trends in Children's Economic Welfare?
Christopher Jencks and Susan E. Mayer
WP-96-2 Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?
Greg J. Duncan, Wei-Jun Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Judith Smith
WP-96-3 Welfare, Work, and Choices: Expanding Notions of Policy Incentives
Judith A. Levine
WP-96-4 Single Mothers' Living Arrangements: The Effect of Household Composition on AFDC Participation
Rebecca A. London
WP-96-5 The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers Between Parents and Children
Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi, and Laurence Kotlikoff
WP-96-6 Street Literacy and Performative Writing
Dwight Conquergood
WP-96-7 Lake Parc Place: A Study of the First Four Years of a Mixed-Income Housing Program
James E. Rosenbaum, Linda K. Stroh, and Cathy Flynn
WP-96-21 The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms
Rebecca M. Blank
WP-96-22 Initial Welfare Spells: Trends, Events, and Duration, with Implications for Welfare Reform
Johanne Boisjoly Kathleen Mullan Harris, and Greg J. Duncan
WP-96-23 Vim Will Win: Long-Run Effects of Motivation and Other "Noncognitive" Traits on Success
Greg J. Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, and Dave Knutson
WP-96-24 Personal Bankruptcy in the United States
Ian Domowitz
WP-95-1 Do Generous Social-Assistance Programs Lead to Dependence? A Comparative Study of Lone-Parent Families in Germany and the United States
Greg J. Duncan and Wolfgang Voges
WP-95-2 Predictors of Economic Hardship Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Anne S. Welch and Fay Lomax Cook
WP-95-3 Do Families "Invest" in Social Capital?
Sandra L. Hofferth, Johanne Boisjoly, and Greg J. Duncan
WP-95-4 Does Children's School Attainment Benefit from Parental Access to Social Capital?
Sandra L. Hofferth, Johanne Boisjoly, and Greg Duncan
WP-95-18 Slow Motion: Earnings Mobility of Young Workers in the 1970s and 1980s
Greg J. Duncan, Johanne Boisjoly, and Timothy Smeeding
WP-95-19 Welfare Reform in Illinois: Recent Efforts in the Context of the National Debate
Dan A. Lewis, Christine C. George, and Deborah Puntenney
WP-95-20 Using Sibling Data to Estimate the Impact of Neighborhoods on Children's Educational Outcomes
Daniel Aaronson
WP-95-21 Public Support for Programs for Older Americans: Continuities Amidst Threats of Discontinuities
Fay Lomax Cook
WP-95-22 Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence
Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi, and Laurence Kotlikoff
WP-94-1 The Earned Income Tax Credit: Views From the Street Level
Lynn M. Olson with Audrey Davis
WP-94-2 Trends in the Working Poor: The Impact of Economy, Family, and Public Policy
Rebecca M. Blank and Rebecca A. London
WP-94-3 The Effect of the Determinants of Single Motherhood on Participation in the AFDC Program
Rebecca A. London
WP-94-14 Has the Material Standard of Living Really Fallen Among Low-Income Children?
Susan E. Mayer and Christopher Jencks
WP-94-15 Revisiting the Concept of Socialization: Caregiving and Teaching in the '90s: A Personal Perspective
Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe
WP-94-16 Determinants of the Consumer Bankruptcy Decision
Ian Domowitz and Robert L. Sartain
WP-93-16 When Do Women Use AFDC and Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation.
Rebecca M. Blank and Patricia Ruggles
WP-93-17 Poverty, Income Distribution and Growth: Are They Still Connected?
Rebecca Blank and David Card.
WP-93-18 A Review of Comprehensive Collaborative Persistent Poverty Initiatives
Nancy Fishman and Meredith Phillips
WP-93-19 Caught in the Act of Doing Something Worthwhile
Christine George and Susan Lloyd
WP-93-20 Gender, Class and Social Isolation
Roberto M. Fernandez and David Harris
WP-93-21 Crime and Community: Continuities, Contradictions and Complexities
Dan A. Lewis

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