A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability Among Children in the United States

H. Luke Shaefer; Sophie Collyer; Greg Duncan; Kathryn Edin; Irwin Garfinkel; David Harris; Timothy M. Smeeding; Jane Waldfogel; Christopher Wimer; Hirokazu Yoshikawa

doi:10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.02

Article Information

vol. 4 no. 2 22-42

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

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2377-8261

History

Published online February 1, 2018.

© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Shaefer, H. Luke, Sophie Collyer, Greg Duncan, Kathryn Edin, Irwin Garfinkel, David Harris, Timothy M. Smeeding, Jane Waldfogel, Christopher Wimer, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa. 2018. “A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability Among Children in the United States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(2): 22–42. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.02. Direct correspondence to: H. Luke Shaefer at lshaefer@umich.edu, University of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, 735 South State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104; Sophie Collyer at smc2246@columbia.edu, Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027; Greg Duncan at gduncan@uci.edu, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, 3200 Education, Irvine, CA 92697; Kathryn Edin at kathy_edin@jhu.edu, Zanvyl Krieger School, John Hopkins University, Department of Sociology, 533 Mergenthaler Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218; Irwin Garfinkel at ig3@columbia.edu, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10025; David Harris at davidbharris@mac.com, Columbia Population Research Center, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027; Timothy M. Smeeding at smeeding@wisc.edu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3464 SSSB, 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706; Jane Waldfogel at jw205@columbia.edu, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027; Christopher Wimer at cw2727@columbia.edu, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10027; and Hirokazu Yoshikawa at hiro.yoshikawa@nyu.edu, New York University, 726 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 . Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

H. Luke Shaefer^a,
Sophie Collyer^b,
Greg Duncan^c,
Kathryn Edin^d,
Irwin Garfinkel^e,
David Harris^f,
Timothy M. Smeeding^g,
Jane Waldfogel^h,
Christopher Wimerⁱ and
Hirokazu Yoshikawa^j

^aAssociate professor of social work and public policy and director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan
^bResearch analyst at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work
^cDistinguished professor in the School of Education at University of California, Irvine
^dBloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Zanvyl Krieger School and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
^eMitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems and interim dean of the Columbia University School of Social Work
^fPresident of Children’s Research and Education Institute and an associate of the Columbia Population Research Center
^gLee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
^hCompton Foundation Centennial Professor for the Prevention of Children’s and Youth Problems at Columbia University School of Social Work
ⁱCo-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work
^jCourtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education and professor at New York University

Corresponding authors:
H. Luke Shaefer, (lshaefer{at}umich.edu); Sophie Collyer, (smc2246{at}columbia.edu); Greg Duncan, (gduncan{at}uci.edu); Kathryn Edin, (kathy_edin{at}jhu.edu); Irwin Garfinkel, (ig3{at}columbia.edu); David Harris, (davidbharris{at}mac.com); Timothy M. Smeeding, (smeeding{at}wisc.edu); Jane Waldfogel, (jw205{at}columbia.edu); Christopher Wimer, (cw2727{at}columbia.edu); Hirokazu Yoshikawa, (hiro.yoshikawa{at}nyu.edu)