Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Poverty"
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Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces
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More Than Just Race: A Response to William Darity, Jr. and Mark Gould
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)I welcome the opportunity to respond to two extensive and provocative review essays of my book, More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. An author seldom gets the chance to reply to reviews in the same ... -
The Obama Administration's Proposals to Address Concentrated Urban Poverty
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On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with ... -
Poverty and Program Participation among Immigrant Children
(Brookings Institution Press, 2011)Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower educational achievement and behavioral problems to lower earnings in the labor market. But ... -
Rethinking the Millennium Development Goals for Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)The global economy and especially its poorest members, face a perfect storm. The crisis has been created by a Global LIE: leverage that is unfathomable, institutions that are discredited, and, experts who are uncertain ... -
The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his controversial review of books by Elijah Anderson, Mitchell Duneier, and Katherine Newman ... -
Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World
(School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Ideas about social policy and its role in development have shifted over time, signaling the difficulty of finding clarity in approaches to social investment, poverty alleviation, and equity. In consequence, research and ...