Do you want to know the oldest wine still in production
today?
Do you want to know what wines were in King Tut’s tomb?
Would you like to know if you pair wine with the meat or the
sauce?
Tune in for the Wine Master Class with Napa Valley winemaker Kira
Ballotta and learn about her newest wine project, Cantadora.
Laura Tach’s research and teaching interests focus on poverty and
social policy. In her research she uses quantitative and
qualitative methods to study how social policies can alleviate
poverty among disadvantaged families and communities.
Professor Hammond will present his paper entitled, On
Fires, Floods, and Federalism: Adapting Welfare Programs for the
Climate Crisis. Professor Hammond’s research contextualizes
the climate crisis in our scholarly understanding of the American
welfare state. Professor Hammond will explain how, amid the
recent spate of fires and floods, federal law has fared. His work
attends to the role of Congress, weakened as it is by increased
polarization and diminished capacity, and how the resulting
delays and distortions in emergency relief have hampered the
government response.
A religious leader, author and social activist, Campbell devoted
her career to using tax law to benefit the underserved. “It’s
about caring for those who are most often left out,” she said.
“From a young age, I just had this idea that you had to act. You
had to step in and fix things.”
Shortly after graduating from the School of Law, she founded the
Oakland Community Law Center, which provided legal services on a
sliding-fee scale.
IPR Director Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach is an economist who
studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in
poverty, including education, health, and income support
policies. Her work traces the impact of major public policies
such as the Food Stamp Program, school finance reform, and early
childhood education on children’s long-term outcomes.
In this session, Dr. Taura Taylor shares the observation that
studies on social inequality, poverty, and marginalization, often
deemphasize agency. Centering self-sufficiency or highlighting
community initiatives to resolve discrimination and inequality
has the potential to minimize structural barriers and systemic
oppression. In addition, distinguished individual and community
practices may not implement broadly across intersecting statuses.
Attendees will receive an overview of the NIH application and
funding process, advice on interacting with program officials,
and information on behavioral and social science research funding
opportunities.
Abstract: This paper estimates the effect of community-level
homicides on language development in early childhood. It also
explores whether maternal efficacy and satisfaction moderate this
relationship. It uses data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal
Survey of Chilean children and their mothers matched to municipal
level homicides. The empirical strategy exploits variation in the
timing of survey data collection and municipal-level
homicides in models with municipality fixed effects.
Since 2010, student loan debt has become the second-highest debt
category for U.S. households. We examine how education
payment-to-income ratios (PIR) impact wealth accumulation across
the wealth distribution using a thresholding approach in quantile
regression. We use data from the last 3 survey rounds of the
Survey of Consumer Finances.
The Center for Poverty & Inequality Research is pleased to host
Brian Holzman as a Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Institute
for Research on Poverty.
The Center for Poverty & Inequality Research is pleased to host
Brian Holzman as a Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Institute
for Research on Poverty.
Research on American framing of health inequality finds that
government health policy reports give more attention to
inequalities by race and ethnicity than by SES. In this paper, I
examine another key site of health inequality
framing—presidential messages. Through quantitative and
qualitative content analysis of ninety years of messages, I find
that presidents mentioned low-income people in more messages and
in more committed tones than racially-oppressed people for the
entire period. The pattern of these mentions also varied by
political party and time.
Hosted by Scholars Strategy Network Sacramento, this training on
building relationships gives scholars an introduction to
effective strategies to ensure that researcher’s findings and
perspectives inform policy. This session provides evidence-based
instructions for how to begin and maintain productive
relationships with policymakers, how to engage with civic
intermediaries in order to better reach policymakers, and what
strategies are critical for creating mutual trust.
Housing has historically been central to the lives of
impoverished communities. For several decades, however, scholars
of poverty had not fully appreciated how housing dynamics shape
the life conditions of people in low-income communities. In
recent years, many countries (including the U.S.) have
experienced an acute housing crisis that placed a significant
burden on poor families. In response to these developments,
scholars of poverty have begun to explore the prevalence,
sources, and consequences of housing insecurity for low-income
families and communities.
The “Tax
Policy For Low-Income Americans” web conference brings
together scholars to discuss new research on the EITC and federal
tax policy innovations and their potential impacts on low-income
families. Includes a panel discussion on the “Design and Efficacy
of Universal (Child) Credits and Benefits.” Organized by IRP
Affiliates Bradley Hardy and James P.
This lecture looks at late 20th-century campaigns to empower
impoverished women overseas. At the very moment that
conservatives vilified poor women in the U.S. as welfare cheats,
anti-poverty advocates positioned poor women overseas as selfless
and hardworking.
Long-standing social and health inequities have put many people
from racial and ethnic minority groups at high risk during the
Covid-19 pandemic. Join our panel of research experts for a
discussion of the pandemic’s disproportionate effects on the
health and economic well-being of marginalized groups in the
U.S., and next steps for policy.
Learn more about our panelists and view recording here.
The Economic History Seminar and the Center for Poverty &
Inequality Research are happy to announce a talk to launch the
new book by Center affiliate Peter Lindert
This event will allow attendees to engage in emerging research on
important issues facing racially, ethnically and economically
marginalized youth as they transition into adulthood. The panel
will include research on the impacts of exposure to community
violence, how cultural norms in higher education affect
disadvantaged youths’ transition to college, and the unique
experiences of Black millenials. Panelists will also discuss
policies that effectively promote positive transitions.
As we look to the next four years under a new administration,
what should we expect in terms of poverty and inequality
alleviation? Looking beyond the immediacy of the Covid-19
pandemic, what are the most important challenges facing the
United States, and what are possible anti-poverty solutions? In
this panel discussion, faculty from across the Center for Poverty
and Inequality Research will share their expert perspectives .
Following the panel, we will be hosting topical breakout
sessions for informal conversation and continued discussion from
4:30-5:00pm PST.
Chantal A. Hailey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research is
at the intersections of race and ethnicity, stratification, urban
sociology, education, and criminology. She is particularly
interested in how micro decision-making contributes to larger
macro segregation and stratification patterns and how segregation
creates, sustains, and exacerbates racial, educational, and
socioeconomic inequality.
This event will allow attendees to engage in cutting edge
research on important issues related to race, ethnicity, and
economic inequality in higher education. The panel will include
research on the college admissions process, affirmative action
policies, and college persistence.
In recognition of the International Day for the Eradication
of Poverty, the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research will be
hosting a welcome back event with special guest David Brady of UC
Riverside. Following Professor Brady’s talk, we will be hosting
breakout sessions for informal conversation and continued
discussion.
The coronavirus pandemic and economic fall-out have exacerbated
longstanding inequalities in the Bay area. The region where the
next app might make overnight millionaires is also the place
where minimum wage jobs cannot cover sky-high rents and where
families struggle to make ends meet. This panel shares research
on Bay area residents’ struggle to get adequate housing, secure
workplace protections, and pay the bills when hardship hits,
drawing in part on unique data from the Taking Count survey of
six Bay area counties.
Leisy J. Abrego is a Professor in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. She
is a member of the first large wave of Salvadoran immigrants who
arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.
Professor Gail S. Goodman is Distinguished Professor of
Psychology and Director of the Center for Public Policy
Research at the University of California, Davis. She is
widely credited with starting the modern scientific study of
children’s eyewitness memory and child victims as witnesses
in legal contexts. Professor Goodman publishes widely, has
received numerous grants, and has been honored with many national
and international awards.
Please join us for a noon webinar on the California
legislative cycle on February 19!
The webinar is offered by the Bay Area chapter of Scholars
Strategy Network (SSN) but our local chapter of SSN, along with
the UCD Center on Poverty and Inequality Research, is hosting a
viewing hub (with lunch) at UCD. You can also view the webinar
individually through Zoom.
Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an economist whose research focuses
on health policy in the U.S and Latin America. Most of
his research focuses on understanding how policies affect
individuals’ health behaviors and economic outcomes.
His fields of specialization are in Health Economics and
Applied Microeconomics.
In 2017, the US department of agriculture estimated that
approximately 1 in 7 U.S. households was “food insecure”: they
either lacked the money to purchase enough food, or to purchase
healthy food. Public policy advocates and politicians alike have
branded the prevailing hourly federal minimum wage of $7.25 a
“starvation wage,” yet the impact of raising the minimum wage on
consumer nutrition is surprisingly underexplored.
Although child poverty rates have fallen by half in the past 50
years, 13% of U.S. children (9.7 million in all) live in families
with incomes below the poverty line. Drawing from a recently
released National Academy report on child poverty, I briefly
summarize causal evidence on the consequences of poverty for
children’s development as well as research on the impacts of
anti-poverty programs such as food stamps and the Earned Income
Tax Credit on development.
Although child poverty rates have fallen by half in the past 50
years, 13% of U.S. children (9.7 million in all) live in families
with incomes below the poverty line. Drawing from a recently
released National Academy report on child poverty, I briefly
summarize causal evidence on the consequences of poverty for
children’s development as well as research on the impacts of
anti-poverty programs such as food stamps and the Earned Income
Tax Credit on development.
We study the competitive effects of charter schools in the
context of Florida, home to one of the largest charter school
sectors in the nation, on test scores, discipline, and attendance
of students that remain in traditional public schools. Merged
birth records and longitudinal administrative education data
facilitate three estimation strategies: (1) individual student
fixed effects; (2) sibling fixed effects; and (3) instrumental
variables where we use information on the expected competitive
pressure exposure based on ZIP code of birth as instrument.
Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those
born into low-income families, especially African Americans,
still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because
of the disadvantages of they experience living in more dangerous
neighborhoods, going to inferior public schools, and persistent
racial inequality. Coming of Age in the Other America
shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban
youth do achieve upward mobility.
In the U.S.A., approximately 20% children and adolescents live in
poverty and more than double that number live in families
experiencing chronic economic hardship. Those figures are higher
for many ethnically and racially diverse communities in the
U.S.A., and higher still for many other nations, particularly in
the Global South. Growing up in contexts of poverty and economic
hardship exposes children to pervasive and multi-faceted
stressors that may shape their developing neurobiological systems
and psychological adjustment in complex, enduring and
disadvantageous ways.
Inequality in schools leads to many of our most intractable
social ills: the mass incarceration of young men of color,
disparities in income, life expectancy and related public health
metrics.
Cassandra Hart is an associate professor of education policy. She
evaluates the effects of school, state and national education
programs, policies, and practices on overall student achievement,
and on the equality of student outcomes. Hart’s work has focused
on school choice programs, school accountability
policies, and effects on students of exposure to
demographically similar teachers. She is also interested in the
effects of virtual schooling on student outcomes, both in K-12
and post-secondary settings.
The William T. Grant Foundation supports research to improve the
lives of young people. Within this broad mission it has to
areas of focus: research on reducing inequality in youth
outcomes, and research on improving the use of research evidence
in policy and practice. Adam Gamoran, president of the
Foundation, will discuss the Foundation’s priorities and the
opportunities it provides for research funding.
In his remarks, President Gamoran will argue that universities
should do more to support research that benefits society by
responding to the pressing problems of the day. He will lay out a
strategy for institutions to incentivize this type of work by
supporting partnerships between researchers and public agencies
or private nonprofit organizations.
The lecture will take place from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in the
Community Room of the International House (across the street from
the main UC Davis campus). A reception and light refreshments
will follow in the Lounge.
Income inequality in the U.S. is near an all-time high, with
damaging consequences for the future of our nation. The
William T. Grant Foundation is committed to supporting research
on ways to reduce inequality among young people. In an era
when evidence is ignored and even fundamental facts are
challenged, what role can researchers play in advancing sound
policies? Adam Gamoran will explain the Foundation’s focus
on reducing inequality and improving the use of evidence in
policy decisions, and will consider how one might think about
these priorities in light of contemporary battles over facts and
evidence. He will derive key areas for research on reducing
inequality from recent consensus reports on effective strategies,
and encourage research that responds to these challenges.
Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and
Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-Director of
Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs
the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of
Economic Research. She has served as the Vice President of the
American Economics Association and is a member of the National
Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Art and
Sciences.
Despite evidence that children from low-income families without
two parents are doubly disadvantaged, a growing body of research
on the interactive role of childhood family structure for
intergenerational mobility finds the opposite—differences in
adult attainment by childhood family structure are greatest among
those with the most advantaged parents. This study examines: (1)
how children’s educational attainment varies by childhood family
structure and parental income; and (2) how much these education
differences account for lifelong income disparities by childhood
family structure.
Abstract: One powerful capacity that enables people to
successfully cope with stress is their ability to regulate their
emotions, thoughts, and behaviors (i.e., self-regulation). Young
children learn self-regulation, in large part, through daily
parent-child interactions which stimulates the development of
long term regulatory functioning. However, contextual stressors
can spill over to disrupt parent-child relationships and this
disruption is thought to be a primary mechanism by which early
stress initiates poorer mental and physical health outcomes.
