Poverty and poor health: Can health care reform narrow the rich-poor gap?
- Barbara Wolfe
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- 2012
Inequality & Mobility
Inequality describes the extent to which resources or outcomes (e.g., income, wealth, consumption, health, education) are similarly or unevenly distributed among individuals, groups, populations, or societies. Mobility refers to the frequency with which individuals, groups, or populations within a society change social or economic position in areas such as income, wealth, education, occupation, and the like.
American poverty and inequality: Key trends and future research directions
- Timothy Smeeding, Maria Cancian, John Karl Scholz, Barbara Wolfe, Robert Haveman, Jennifer Noyes, Katherine Magnuson, Carolyn Heinrich, Thomas Kaplan, Lawrence M. Berger, Marcia Carlson, J. Michael Collins, Julia Isaacs, Daniel R. Meyer, and James Walker
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2011
Disadvantaged fathers and their families
- Timothy M. Smeeding, Irwin Garfinkel, and Ronald B. Mincy
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- 2011
From income to consumption: Understanding the transmission of inequality
- Richard Blundell
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- 2011
Unequal Pathways through American Universities
- Fabian T. Pfeffer and Sara Goldrick-Rab
- Discussion Paper
- 2011
Immigration Policy and Less-Skilled Workers in the United States: Reflections on Future Directions for Reform
- Harry J. Holzer
- Discussion Paper
- 2011
The Effect of Family Income on Risk of Child Maltreatment
- Maria Cancian, Kristen Shook Slack, Mi Youn Yang
- Discussion Paper
- 2010
Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy An Introduction to the Issues
- Timothy M. Smeeding, Irwin Garfinkel, and Ronald B. Mincy
- Discussion Paper
- 2010
Policies that Strengthen Fatherhood and Family Relationships: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
- Virginia Knox, Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Elana Bildner
- Discussion Paper
- 2010
Incarceration and Prisoner Reentry in the United States
- Steven Raphael
- Discussion Paper
- 2010