Raffington et al. find that providing low-income mothers with cash gifts for the first four years of their children’s lives appears to change the children’s epigenetic biological ageing in ways associ...

APPAM founded the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) in 1981 through the merger of two other journals – Policy Analysis and Public Policy. Wiley-Blackwell (formerly John Wiley & Sons) ha...

2024 Dissertation Research Grantees present to Upjohn Institute researchers

Discover highlights from a decade of the Center’s research on supports for economic self-sufficiency among Latino families with children.

Join KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk for an in-depth analysis and outlook of the economic and fiscal policy changes enacted during the first 75 days of the new administration.

Lisa A. Gennetian February 23, 2025 In July 2023, a loved one received an official letter from the Social Security Administration. The two-page document was a bill for $120,000 owed due to…

In the U.S., the federal government and dozens of cities have invested in home visiting programs intended to be universally available at scale to support caregivers of young children. Evaluations find...

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When we lock into a particular goal too quickly, we blind ourselves to alternate routes forward that might have been better and easier. We can avoid this trap by asking ourselves one simple question.

The more we are stuck in the fixed-pie mentality, the harder it is to spot the opportunities to expand the pie.

Lisa Gennetian with 2024 summer book club scholars (alphabetical order) Shannon Egan-Dailey, Matthew Maury, Hema Shah, Prachi Shukla and Laura Stilwell Jessica Calarco’s 2024 book Holding It…

ReThinking · Episode

Lisa A. Gennetian November 12, 2024 Many of us faced choices the evening of November 5. Stay awake, keep multiple social media and news channels open for live updates, and ride the journey of the…

Even Donald Trump’s recent assertion that he would use executive action to abolish birthright citizenship has a historical link to the Chinese American experience.

Children born in poverty are more likely to experience poverty as adults, but this likelihood is greater in the United States than in Australia, Denmark, Germany or the United Kingdom. The authors exa...

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Economic research that VoxDev has featured in 2024 has yielded interesting insights on false narratives in international migration discourse, fertility and family planning, attendance vs learning in e...

After Congress ended extra cash aid for families, local efforts aimed to fill the gap. In Flint, Michigan, Rx Kids gives cash aid to every family for a baby's first year. Will it work elsewhere?

America's infrastructure across a range of sectors is in desperate need of upgrades, and major spending bills passed during the Biden administration with bipartisan support aim to launch this…