Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19

Marianne P. Bitler; Hilary W. Hoynes; Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

doi:10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.02

Article Information

vol. 9 no. 3 32-59

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 4, 2023.

© 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Bitler, Marianne P., Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. 2023. “Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(3): 32–59. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.02. The authors thank Ted Carter, Nick Fleming, Amelia Vasquez, and especially Raheem Chaudhry for excellent research assistance, and Dottie Rosenbaum, Danny Schneider, Steve Raphael, and Sheldon Danziger for helpful comments. Direct correspondence to: Marianne Bitler, bitler@ucdavis.edu, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616. 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

Marianne P. Bitler^a,
Hilary W. Hoynes^b and
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach^c

^aProfessor of economics at the University of California, Davis
^bHaas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities and professor of economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley
^cMargaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and director of the Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University