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Re-Centering Family Structure in Opportunity Insights’ Work on Intergenerational Mobility: How Important Is Single Parenthood?
…rivaling or exceeding other widely emphasized factors such as school quality, income inequality, and social capital. At the same time, OI’s reliance on mobility measures that condition on parental income,…
Op-Ed
Congress Gave Families a Raise. Now Let Parents Decide How to Use It.
…savings on child care would more than offset the lost earnings. A single mother could shift to part-time work to spend more time with her young child, drawing on the…
Commentary
Time Limits and Work Requirements Would Improve Subsidized Housing Programs
…a full-time job or marrying a working spouse could jeopardize their housing subsidy altogether. Since housing assistance has no time limit, taking steps to boost one’s income can put tens…
Op-Ed
Don’t Tax the Public Housing Poor Like They’re Rich
…proposed regulation, announced on March 6, would permit local housing authorities to adopt both time limits and work requirements for these tenants, who are among the poorest Americans, with an…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…some suggesting improper benefit payments exceeded a staggering $400 billion. The New York Times recently pointed to national losses to fraud (the most troubling subset of improper payments) of more…
Op-Ed
States Can Strengthen Families and Fight Welfare Dependence and Fraud
…design programs that emphasized work and personal responsibility. The results were striking. Welfare caseloads fell by more than 80% over time. Work among never‑married mothers, the group most likely to…
Op-Ed
Reforming Health Care
…patients, allow for a degree of choice of provider, and involve some choice of timing. The types of interventions that fall into this first grouping are primary care visits, pediatric…
Blog Post
Tariffs Cannot Fully Replace the Income Tax
During his State of the Union Address, President Donald Trump restated his desire to replace income taxes with tariffs. “As time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries…
Blog Post
The Mirage of “Pro-Worker AI” via Public Policy
…those things are valuable partly because not everyone has them. If a new technology spreads skills more widely, it may help more workers overall—while at the same time reducing the…
Commentary
Young Men’s Earnings over the Long Run – An Update
…that analyses like my marriageability study that adjust nominal earnings for inflation using a conventional price index tend to understate earnings growth over time. My 2024 paper used the quantitative…
Working Paper
What Can We Learn from Guaranteed Basic Income Pilots in the United States? Evidence on Employment Effects
…is consistent with estimates from the academic literature. We do not find strong patterns related to the timing of the pilots or most demographic characteristics of the study participants. We…
Blog Post
States Are Taking the Reins on College Accountability
Last year’s budget reconciliation legislation, more commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), marked a turning point in federal higher education policy. For the first time, Congress attached real consequences…