Poverty Research & Policy

In this podcast episode, Christopher Wildeman, an Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, discusses his findings from a study about paternal incarceration and children’s risk of being charged as an adult based on evidence from a Danish policy shock.

In this podcast episode, Alexes Harris, a sociologist at the University of Washington, talks about work from her 2016 book Pound of Flesh: Monetary Legal Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor.

In this podcast episode, Chris Herbst of Arizona State University discusses his research on changes in the cost of child care in the United States in recent decades. Despite reports of skyrocketing child care costs, Herbst finds that child care costs have been essentially flat since around 2000 and that there has been a noticeable divergence in the quality of child care that low- and high-income parents purchase for their children.

This podcast episode features IRP National Poverty Fellow Megan Reid discussing her research on cohabiting stepfamily formation among low-income black families in the Bronx and, in particular, the ways in which mothers engage in deliberate vetting of potential partners before allowing them to move in.

In this podcast, law professor Susannah Camic Tahk discusses the growth in U.S. antipoverty programs that are run through the tax code and what it means for the politics of these programs and how they’re administered.

This podcast episode features Lincoln Groves, a postdoctoral scholar in the National Poverty Fellows Program, talking about his research on how increased Child Medicaid access in the 1980s and early 1990s may have led to improved high school graduation rates.

In this podcast episode, Urban Institute Senior Fellow and IRP visiting scholar Julia Isaacs talks about the effectiveness of safety net supports for low-income children with an unemployed parent during the Great Recession.

In this episode, Lisa Gennetian of the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families discusses research about income instability in the households of Hispanic children and how better understanding the ways that race, ethnicity, and language affect the experience of poverty matter when it comes to developing better public policy.

Our November 2015 episode features Clare Huntington, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Fordham University. In the podcast, Huntington discusses how family law and the related institutions that support it do not align with the needs of many of today’s families, particularly given a shift in marriage trends in the United States with lower income Americans less likely to ever get married.