Research
Welfare, Children and Families: A Three City Study
The primary goal of Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City
Study is to examine impact of the 1996 federal welfare reform law on low-income
families by gathering longitudinal data in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio.
Our research goals were: (1) to describe adult strategies developed in response
to reform in terms of employment, schooling or training, residential mobility,
and fertility; (2) to examine the role of welfare reform on children's health
and development, and the influence of reform on children's need for and use
of social services; and (3) to make findings accessible to a broad audience.
Click here to
access "After Welfare Reform: A Snapshot of Low Income Families in Boston",
released in September 2004.
Youth Achievement and the Structure of
Inner-City Neighborhoods: The Chicago Neighborhood Study
The Chicago Youth Achievement study was designed to assess how the
social development of youth is affected by the neighborhoods in which they
live, and to identify the neighborhood characteristics that promote prosocial
activities and discourage problem behavior. In 1990 and 1991, we interviewed
525 African-American families residing in 62 poor and nonpoor Chicago neighborhoods
and gathered extensive information on a variety of social isolation indicators,
including social networks, neighborhood associations, and community resource
use, as well as important individual and family characteristics, in order
to address these questions.
Urban Poverty and Family Life Study
The Urban Poverty and Family Life Study (UPFLS) was a research project designed
to describe and understand the life experiences of Black, White, Mexican,
Puerto Rican and non-Hispanic white families living in high-poverty neighborhoods
in Chicago. The study comprised four parts: a large survey of inner-city residents;
the Social Opportunity Survey, which focused on a smaller sample of respondents
drawn from the main survey; ethnographic field research; and a survey of employers
in the Greater Chicago area.
Smart Library on Urban Poverty Research
In cooperation with The National Institute for Social Science
Information (NISSI), a substantial online library of information is now available
so that the media, participants in the public debate, and the public will
have the opportunity to delve more deeply into the literature on joblessness
and poverty. The library consists of condensed academic publications on joblessness
and poverty in the inner city that are linked theoretically and empirically
through a new technology called Question Based Indexing.
Access the Smart Library here.
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