CPR Policy Lab Working Papers

CPR working papers present cutting-edge research "as it happens." We invite readers of our working papers to share any comments, criticisms, and feedback with CPR Associate Director Christopher Wimer. Help us move poverty research forward!

Current Working Papers

• In our latest working paper, Collaboration for Poverty Research Associate Director Christopher Wimer, with Lucas Manfield and Amanda Nothaft, asks how well food assistance programs are working in the Bay Area.
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• CPR has begun work on an experimental poverty measure for the city of San Francisco.
• Collaboration for Poverty Research Associate Director Christopher Wimer, in collaboration with CPI undergraduate fellow Lucas Manfield, has created a series of "SPM-style" poverty thresholds for 2008.
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• CPI has updated its "San Francisco Distress Index" through February 2011.
• Collaboration for Poverty Research Associate Director Christopher Wimer updated the index in collaboration with CPI undergraduate fellow Jean Guo and New America Media – tracking how San Franciscans are faring in the Great Recession and beyond.
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• In our latest working paper, Joanna Reed, Paula England, Krystale Littlejohn, and Brooke Conroy examine in-depth interviews with over 50 unmarried women in their twenties to uncover why sexually active men and women who aren't desiring a pregnancy so often fail to practice contraception consistently.
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• Collaboration for Poverty Research Associate Director Christopher Wimer and CPI graduate fellow Emily Ryo present a new working paper on economic distress in San Francisco.
• The "San Francisco Distress Index," developed with support from the San Francisco Foundation and New America Media, shows that economic distress in San Francisco has nearly doubled since the beginning of the Great Recession, and stands well higher today than in the months and years following the dot-com bust.
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• CPR's social policy laboratory on Poverty Measurement presents a new working paper by Barbara Bergmann and John Coder that attempts to estimate an experimental new monthly poverty measure
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