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Unconditional Cash Transfers and Prenatal Care Utilization in Flint, Michigan Open

Mona Hanna‐Attisha, S.M. Agarwal, H. Luke Shaefer · 2025

This cohort study examines prenatal care utilization before and after implementation of an unconditional cash transfer program in Flint, Michigan, compared with similar cities in Michigan.

Unconditional Prenatal and Infant Cash Transfers and Parenting Stress in the Postpartum: Quasi-Experimental Impacts of the Rx Kids Program in Flint, Michigan Open

Eric D. Finegood, H. Luke Shaefer, Yasamean Zamani-Hank, Jenny LaChance, Maya Wolock , et al. · 2025

This study examined whether the Rx Kids program, launched in Flint, Michigan, in January 2024 as the US’s first community-wide unconditional cash transfer program for expectant mothers and infants, was associated with differences in parent…

Perinatal Cash Transfers and Birth Outcomes: A Population-Based, Quasi-Experimental Study of the Rx Kids Unconditional Cash Prescription During Pregnancy and Infancy Open

Sumit Agarwal, H. Luke Shaefer, Yasamean Zamani-Hank, Eric D. Finegood, Jenny LaChance , et al. · 2025

Understanding the relationship between intergenerational mobility and community violence Open

Olivia Mann, Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer · 2024

Violence is a key mechanism in the reproduction of community disadvantage. The existing evidence indicates that violence in a community impacts the intergenerational mobility of its residents. The current study explores the possibility of …

Unconditional cash transfers and mental health symptoms among parents with low incomes: Evidence from the 2021 child tax credit Open

Nicole Kovski, Natasha Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore, H. Luke Shaefer · 2023

The Effects of Income on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Low Incomes: Evidence from the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit Open

Natasha Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore, Nicole Kovski, H. Luke Shaefer · 2023

Government Transfers and Consumer Spending among Households with Children during COVID-19 Open

Pinghui Wu, Vincent A. Fusaro, H. Luke Shaefer · 2022

Leveraging novel data on consumer credit and debit card spending by Zip code, this study examines how the impact of government transfers on economic well-being varied by household type during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate th…

The Effects of Income on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Low Incomes: Evidence from the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit Open

Natasha Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore, Nicole Kovski, H. Luke Shaefer · 2022

We examine the effects of an unconditional cash transfer on the economic wellbeing (material hardship, ability to meet needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low i…

Emergency unemployment benefits and health care spending during Covid Open

Michael Evangelist, Pinghui Wu, H. Luke Shaefer · 2021

Objective To estimate the impact of the $600 per week Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) payments on health care services spending during the Covid pandemic and to investigate if this impact varied by state Medicaid expansio…

The Interlinkage between Blood Plasma Donation and Poverty in the United States Open

Analidis Ochoa, H. Luke Shaefer, Andrew Grogan‐Kaylor · 2021

In 2019, plasma centers in the United States received a record 53.5 million blood donations, roughly triple that collected during the Great Recession. Recent ethnographic research and journalistic accounts connect plasma sales and poverty,…

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Lifetime Prevalence of Homelessness in the United States Open

Vincent A. Fusaro, Helen Levy, H. Luke Shaefer · 2018

Homelessness in the United States is often examined using cross-sectional, point-in-time samples. Any experience of homelessness is a risk factor for adverse outcomes, so it is also useful to understand the incidence of homelessness over l…

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

H. Luke Shaefer, Sophie Collyer, Greg J. Duncan, Kathryn Edin, Irwin Garfinkel , et al. · 2018

To reduce child poverty and income instability, and eliminate extreme poverty among families with children in the United States, we propose converting the Child Tax Credit and child tax exemption into a universal, monthly child allowance. …

Neighborhood Food Infrastructure and Food Security in Metropolitan Detroit Open

Scott W. Allard, Maria V. Wathen, H. Luke Shaefer, Sandra K. Danziger · 2017

Concern about spatial access to food retailers and its relationship to household food security has increased in recent years, placing greater importance on understanding how proximity to food retailers is related to household food consumpt…

How should we define “low-wage” work? An analysis using the Current Population Survey Open

Vincent A. Fusaro, H. Luke Shaefer · 2016

Part-time workers: some key differences between primary and secondary earners Data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS indicate that the proportion of part-time workers who are primary earners has grown over the past …

Is a mid‐level dental provider model acceptable to potential patients? Open

Elizabeth Phillips, H. Luke Shaefer, Mert N. Aksu, Adrienne Lapidos · 2016

Objective This study aims to assess patient attitudes toward mid‐level dental providers, known as dental therapists ( DT s), by surveying those likely to be their patients. The recent adoption of accreditation standards by the Commission o…

SSH volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter Open

Brian E. Conway, Ileen A. DeVault, Benoît Dostie, Ruth Dupré, Anders Ottosson , et al. · 2016

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Left Out:<i>Policy Diffusion and the Exclusion of Black Workers from Unemployment Insurance</i> Open

Richard Rodems, H. Luke Shaefer · 2016

Social scientists and historians have identified the exclusion of agricultural workers and domestic servants from social insurance programs during the New Deal as a cause of the racially divided US welfare state. The most prominent explana…

Are Household Food Expenditures Responsive to Entry Into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?* Open

Jiyoon Kim, H. Luke Shaefer · 2015

Objective This study examines changes in household food expenditures in the months directly around entry into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Methods Using monthly data on SNAP participation from the Panel Study of In…

Safety Net Care and Midlevel Dental Practitioners: A Case Study of the Portion of Care That Might Be Performed Under Various Setting and Scope-of-Practice Assumptions Open

Elizabeth Phillips, Anne E. Gwozdek, H. Luke Shaefer · 2015

Objectives. We sought to determine the proportion of dental care provided at safety net–type clinics that might be performed by midlevel practitioners. Methods. Data were obtained on 157 328 procedures performed in 2012 at the clinics asso…

Introduction to The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Open

H. Luke Shaefer · 2015

Presentation made on May 15, 2015 at the Census Bureau, and previously in 2014 at Duke University and University of Michigan

Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States Open

H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin, Elizabeth Talbert · 2015

Shaefer and Edin (2013) have found a large rise in “extreme poverty”—defined as cash income of no more than $2 per person per day, for a month or calendar quarter—among U.S. households with children between 1996 and 2011. This article expl…

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