Inequality, Mobility, and Well-being
Populations thrive when all members are valued and have opportunities to flourish, yet pervasive inequality remains and limits the well-being of different groups. Further, inequality, both locally and globally, affects mobility across generations and across geographic regions. CPC faculty fellows study disparities and differences related to experiences with the criminal and legal system, healthcare systems, financial institutions, rental and housing markets, education and employment, income and wealth inequality, migration, morbidity and mortality, and look at policy interventions to reduce socioeconomic differentials across groups and populations.
Associated Current and Recently Completed Projects
A Perfect Match? How Job Demands Shape Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring
The project will examine whether and how job demands - the required skills and experiences associated with a job opening - are associated with gender and racial discrimination levels in hiring. We will use experimental procedures to examine whether employers are more or less likely…
Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently…
Agricultural intervention for food security and HIV health outcomes in Kenya
Despite major advances in care and treatment for those living with HIV, morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) remain unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), largely due to the parallel challenges of poverty and food insecurity. Food insecurity and poverty contribute to…
An empirically driven theory of poverty reduction
This project uses secondary data from four countries to develop a "middle-range" theory of individual economic growth. We use evaluation data from four government unconditional cash transfer programs, and combine them with secondary data on the micro-environment such as market access, climate, and land cover.…
Applying a life course approach to assess the impact of neighborhood and interpersonal discrimination on allostatic load
Abstract Allostatic load, which is characterized by the dysregulation of physiological activity across multiple systems in the body, has been linked to an increased risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. However, the prevalence of allostatic load is not equally distributed…