Variation in Mobility and Well-Being
Populations thrive when all members are valued and have opportunities to flourish, yet strong differences exist across groups in ways that limit their well-being. Further, these differences, which occur both locally and globally, affects mobility across generations and across geographic regions. CPC faculty fellows study variation and differences related to experiences with the criminal legal system, healthcare systems, financial institutions, rental and housing markets, education and employment, income and wealth distribution, migration, morbidity and mortality, and look at policy interventions to reduce socioeconomic differentials across groups and populations.
Associated Current and Recently Completed Projects
A Multistate Evaluation of SNAP Purchase Restrictions
This project seeks to evaluate the effects of state-level SNAP purchase restrictions on food spending patterns and implications for participants and retailers. The study will span 3 years and will be led by Pourya Valizadeh at Texas A&M University (TAMU). UNC-Chapel Hill via the Carolina…
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.…