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Have Middle-Income Married Couples Prospered with Age? (Article/Opportunity and Ownership Project Facts)Author(s): Robert I. LermanUsing data from the Federal Reserve Board's Surveys of Consumer Finances (SCFs), we follow one segment of a cohort over its life cycle—married couples as the husband ages from 36–44 in 1989 to 51–59 in 2004. We find that middle-income and lower-middle-income married-couple households experienced modest income growth but rapid growth in net worth. Overall, the evidence documents significant gains in income and wealth as married couples aged from their late 30s to their 50s.
| Posted: December 12, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Immigrant Integration in Low-income Urban Neighborhoods: Improving Economic Prospects and Strengthening Connections for Vulnerable Families (Research Report)Author(s): Lynette A. Rawlings,
Randolph Capps,
Kerstin Gentsch,
Karina FortunyThe paper explores the financial well-being and economic integration of immigrant groups compared with native-born minorities and whites in vulnerable urban neighborhoods. Among the main findings from the analysis is that immigrants and native minorities in the neighborhoods we examine face similar types of economic difficulties. However, after controlling for citizenship, English proficiency, educational attainment, and having a driver’s license and a reliable car, many of the economic disadvantages disappear for immigrant groups, but not for native-born minorities. These findings suggest that even in tough neighborhoods, the potential for economic integration of immigrants is strong.
| Posted: November 27, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects: Employment and Child Support Outcomes and Trends (Research Report)Author(s): Karin Martinson,
Demetra Smith Nightingale,
Pamela A. Holcomb,
Burt S. Barnow,
John TrutkoThe Partnership for Fragile Families Demonstration projects, operating in 13 sites across the country, provided a range of services aimed at increasing the capacity of young, economically disadvantaged fathers in becoming financial and emotional resources to their children and sought to reduce poverty and welfare dependence. As part of a multi-component evaluation, this report examines how participants fared in two key areas: (1) employment rates and earnings levels and (2) the establishment of child support orders and the payment of child support.
| Posted: October 31, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Racial Disparities and the New Federalism (Discussion Papers)Author(s): Margery Austin Turner,
Marla McDanielThe paper explores how shifts in both social welfare policies and economic conditions beginning in the mid-1990s altered the relative well-being of blacks— compared to whites—between 1997 and 2002. It uses the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to assess how the relative well-being of black families improved or disparities persisted. The findings suggest that some of the disparities between whites and blacks narrowed between 1997 and 2002, especially among people with low incomes. But gaps in income, child school outcomes, employment, assets, and welfare and other income supports, remained essentially unchanged over the period.
| Posted: October 25, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Lecture Series Honoring Paul Offner Launched by University of Wisconsin and Urban Institute (Press Release)Author(s): The Urban InstitutePaul Offner’s legacy of applying good scholarship to public policy solutions, especially for society’s disadvantaged, will be celebrated with a lecture series sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs in partnership with the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute.
| Posted: October 22, 2007 | Availability: HTML |
