Mounting reports in the media suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified prejudice
and discrimination against racial/ethnic minorities, especially Asians. Existing research …

Objective. To investigate the effect of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) on the health insurance coverage of foreign‐ and US‐born …

Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the March Current Population Survey,
we provide poverty estimates for 1967 to 2012 based on a historical supplemental poverty …

I study the effect of a recent expansion in India’s National Old Age Pension Scheme on elderly
well-being. Estimates suggest that public pension has a modestly negative effect on the …

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act denied legal noncitizens
who arrived in the United States after August 1996 access to means‐tested federal …

… Neeraj Kaushal sifts through the evidence from economics and public policy and reviews
large national and international studies to conclude that, indeed, education has large …

This paper examines the association between poverty and food insecurity among children,
using two different definitions of poverty – the official poverty measure (OPM) and the new …

I investigate the effect of the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA)
on employment and earnings of undocumented foreign-born men from Nicaragua…

This paper discusses estimates of the effect of welfare reform,as measured by the imposition
of time limits and family cap provisions, on the employment and fertility of less educated …

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and
heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of …