Insights / Research Brief•Nov 10, 2020
Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Family Dynamics in Economically Vulnerable Households • The Education Gradient in Maternal Enjoyment of Time in Childcare
A Google search of “parenting and mothers during covid” in mid-October 2020 returned nearly 300...
Topics:
COVID-19, Economic Mobility & Poverty, Early Childhood Education

Insights / Podcast episode•Jul 11, 2020
Episode 13: Stopping an Avalanche of Poverty
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Bruce Meyer
One of the largest economic downturns in US history has not produced more poverty. What...
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty, COVID-19
Insights / Research Brief•Dec 11, 2019
Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth · The Long-Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty
The old adage about fighting poverty is that if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; but if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty

Insights / Video
Friedman Forum: Gender and Human Capital Investments in Developing Countries
On November 1, BFI hosted Alessandra Voena, Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth...
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty
Insights / Research Brief•Oct 09, 2019
Spillover Impacts on Education from Employment Guarantees and Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction
For most young people and their parents who live in high-income countries, the decision to attend school is an easy one. School is universally available and free through high school, schooling is mandatory through the age of 16, and most jobs require at least a high school degree. Dropping out of school all but ensures a lifetime of relatively low income.
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages, Health care, K-12 Education
Insights / Research Brief•Sep 11, 2019
Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes
If you had the unfortunate experience of acquiring a disability that hindered your ability to work and that suddenly put you in financial distress, you might be grateful for government-provided disability payments. Such income might do more than cover monthly living expenses, but may also keep you from such traumatic financial events as eviction, foreclosure, or bankruptcy.
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
Insights / Research Brief•Aug 12, 2019
Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
The rebirth of downtown American cities in recent decades has turned neighborhoods that formally housed lower-income families—and that may have also harbored manufacturing, warehousing, and other bygone industries—into thriving high-end residential spaces, where people enjoy new coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues.
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty
Insights / Research Brief•Aug 12, 2019
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities
The promise of the American dream is about the possibility of upward mobility; namely, that anyone, regardless of where they were born and what class they were born into, can achieve success on their own terms.
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty