Recent Publications
Books
Cancian, Maria, and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2009. Changing Poverty, Changing Policies. Russell Sage.
Blank, Rebecca M., Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Danziger, Sheldon H., and Peter Gottschalk. 2004. Diverging Fortunes: Trends in Poverty and Inequality. Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau.
Danziger, Sheldon H., and Robert Haveman. 2002. Understanding Poverty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Journal Articles
2008
Sullivan, J.X., Turner, L., and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2008. "The relationship between income and material hardship." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 27(1): 63-81.
Dinkelman, Taryn, David Lam, and Murray Leibbrandt. 2008. "Linking Poverty and Income Shocks to Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Study of Young Adults in Cape Town." South African Journal of Economics, 76(S1): 53-74.
Yang, S.M., Lynch, John W., John E. Schulenberg, A.V. Roux, and Trivellore Raghunathan. 2008. "Emergence of socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and overweight and obesity in early adulthood: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." American Journal of Public Health, 983(3): 468-477.
2007
Danziger, Sheldon H. 2007. "Fighting poverty revisited: What did researchers know 40 years ago? What do we know today?" Focus: Institute for Research on Poverty, 25(1): 3-11.
Phinney, Robin, Sheldon H. Danziger, Harold Pollack, and Kristin Seefeldt. 2007. "Housing Instability among Current and Former Welfare Recipients." American Journal of Public Health, 97(5): 832-837.
2006
Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, and Sherman James. 2006. "Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black–White Disparities in Infant Birthweight." American Journal of Public Health, 96(11): 2032-2039.
Ardington, Cally, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and Matthew Welch. 2006. "The sensitivity to key data imputations of recent estimates of income poverty and inequality in South Africa." Economic Modelling, 23(5): 822-835.
Danziger, Sheldon H., L.J. Turner, and K.S. Seefeldt. 2006. "Failing the Transition from Welfare to Work: Women Chronically Disconnected from Employment and Cash Welfare." Social Science Quarterly, 87(2): 227-249.
Ahern, J., and Sandro Galea. 2006. "Social context and depression after a disaster: the role of income inequality." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(9): 766-770.
Nandi, A., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, A. Bucciarelli, D. Vlahov, and K. Tardiff. 2006. "What explains the association between neighborhood-level income inequality and the risk of fatal overdose in New York City?" Social Science and Medicine, 63(3), 662-674.
DeLeire, T., J.A. Levine, and Helen Levy. 2006. "Is welfare reform responsible for low-skilled women's declining health insurance coverage in the 1990s?" Journal of Human Resource, 41(3): 495-528.
2005
Hauser, Seth, and Yu Xie. 2005. "Temporal and regional variation in earnings inequality: urban China in transition between 1988 and 1995." Social Science Research, 34(1): 44-79.
Gottschalk, Peter, and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2005. "Inequality of Wage Rates, Earnings, and Family Income in the United States, 1975-2002." Review of Income and Wealth, 51(2): 231-254.
Miller, J.R., T.M. Piper, J. Ahern, M. Tracy, K.J. Tardiff, D. Vlahov, and Sandro Galea. 2005. "Income Inequality and Risk of Suicide in New York City Neighborhoods: a Multilevel Case-Control Study." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 35(4): 448-459.
2004
Bound, John, Julianne Cullen, Austin Nichols, and Lucille G. Schmidt. 2004. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity." Journal of Public Economics, 88(12): 2487-2514.
Haider, S.J., Robert F. Schoeni, Y.H. Bao, and C. Danielson. 2004. "Immigrants, welfare reform, and the economy." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23(4): 745-764.
Wu, Xiaogang, and Donald J. Treiman. 2004. "The Household Registration System and Social Stratification in China: 1955-1996." Demography , 41(2): 363-384.
2003
Haider, Steven J., A. Jacknowitz, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2003. "Welfare Work Requirements and Child Well-Being: Evidence from the Effects on Breast-Feeding." Demography, 40(3): 479-497.
Blank, R.M., and Robert F. Schoeni. 2003. "Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990s." American Economic Review, 92(2): 304-308.
Hillemeier, Marianne M., John W. Lynch, S. Harper, Trivellore Raghunathan, and George A. Kaplan. 2003. "Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty: a State-Level Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality." American Journal of Public Health, 93(4): 652-657.
Baker, Michael, and Gary Solon. 2003. "Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Canadian Men, 1976-1992: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Records." Journal of Labor Economics, 21(2): 289-321.
Hannum, Emily. 2003. "Poverty and Basic Education in Rural China: Villages, Households, and Girls' and Boys' Enrollment." Comparative Education Review, 47(2): 141-159.
Harding, David J. 2003. "Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on High School Dropout and Teenage Pregnancy." American Journal of Sociology, 109(3): 676-719.
Galea, Sandro, J. Ahern, D. Viahov, C. Fuller, A.C. Leon, and K. Tardiff. 2003. "Income Distribution and Risk of Fatal Drug Overdose in New York City Neighborhoods." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 70(2): 139-148.
2002
Park, Albert F., Sangui Wang, and Guobao Wu. 2002. "Regional Poverty Targeting China." Journal of Public Economics, 86(1), 123-153.
Berube, Alan, and William H. Frey. 2002. "A Decade of Mixed Blessings: Urban and Suburban Poverty in Census 2000." The Brookings Institution: The Living Cities Census Series, August. Reprint No. 599.
Pollack, Harold, Sheldon H. Danziger, Rukmalie Jayakody, and Kristin S. Seefeldt. 2002. "Drug Testing Welfare Recipients -- False Positives, False Negatives, Unanticipated Opportunities." Women's Health Issues, 12(1): 23-31.
Pollack, Harold, Sheldon H. Danziger, Rukmalie Jayakody, and Kristin S. Seefeldt. 2002. "Substance Use Among Welfare Recipients: Trends and Policy Responses." Social Service Review, 76(2): 256-274.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2002. "Work Units and Income Inequality: The Effect of Market Transition in Urban China." Social Forces, 80(3): 1069-1099. Reprint No. 592.
Barsky, Robert B., John Bound, Kerwin Charles, and J.P. Lupton. 2002. "Accounting for the black-white wealth gap: A nonparametric approach." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97(459): 663-673.
Levison, Deborah, Joseph A. Ritter, Rasamund Stock, and Richard B. Anker. 2002. "Distribution of income and job opportunities: Normative judgements from four continents." International Labour Review, 141(4): 385-412.
Harada, K., H. Sugisawa, E. Kobayashi, and Jersey Liang. 2002. "Factors Related to Income Change Among the Elderly: Dynamics of Poverty Based on a Longitudinal Survey." Japanese Sociological Review, 523(207): 2-17.
Chapters
Sampson, Robert J., and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2006. "Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods." In Poverty Traps edited by Bowles, Samuel; Durlauf, Steven N.; Hoff, Karla . Princeton University Press.
Harding, David J. 2006. "Urban Poverty." In Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell Publishing.
Bjorklund, Anders, Markus Jantti, and Gary Solon. 2005. "Influences of Nature and Nurture on Earnings Variation: A Report on a Study of Various Sibling Types in Sweden." In Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves . New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Danziger, Sheldon H., Deborah Reed, and Tony N. Brown. 2005. "Poverty and prosperity : prospects for reducing racial/ethnic economic disparities in the United States." In Racism and Public Policy edited by Y. Bangura. London: Palgrave-MacMillan.
Stafford, Frank P., Greg Duncan, and Sandra L. Hofferth. 2004. "Evolution and Change in Family Income, Wealth and Health: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968-2000 and Beyond." In A Telescope on Society : Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond edited by James House, Thomas Juster and Robert Kahn. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Park, Albert F., Changqing Ren, and Sangui Wang. 2004. "Microfinance, Poverty Alleviation, and Financial Reform in China." In Rural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in China edited by Rural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in China. Paris: OECD.
Harding, David J., Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer. 2004. "The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults." In Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success edited by S. Bowles, H. Gintis, M. Osborne. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage and Princeton University Press.
Pebley, A.R., and Narayan Sastry . 2004. "Neighborhoods, Poverty and Children’s Well-being: A Review." In Social Inequality edited by Neckerman, Kathryn . New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Anderson, Barbara. 2003. "Fertility, Poverty and Gender." In Fertility: Current South African Issues of Poverty, HIV/AIDS & Youth edited by South Africa, Department of Social Development, South Africa and Human Sciences Research Council. Pretoria, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council.
Duryea, Suzanne, and Carmen Pages. 2003. "What Human Capital Policies Can and Cannot Do for Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Latin America." In Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy edited by Ana Margheritis . Pp. 145-172. Coral Gables, FA: North-South Center Press.
Duryea, Suzanne, and Carmen Pages. 2003. "Human Capital Policies: What they Can and Cannot do for Productivity and Poverty-Reduction in Latin America." In Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy edited by Ana Margheritis. Coral Gables, FL: North South Center Press.
Danziger, Sheldon H. 2002. "Approaching the Limits: Early National Lessons from Welfare Reform." In Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform edited by B. Weber, G. Duncan, and L Whitener. Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Danziger, Sheldon H. 2002. "After Welfare Reform and an Economic Boom: Why is Child Poverty Still So Much Higher in the U.S. than in Europe?" In Children and Social Security edited by J. Bradshaw. 3-35. London: Ashgate.PSC Research Report No. 02-506.
PSC Reports
Grieger, Lloyd, Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2008. "Estimating and Benchmarking the Trend in the Poverty Rate from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." PSC Research Report No. 08-633. March 2008.
Farley, Reynolds, Couper, Mick P., and Maria Krysan. 2007. "Race and Revitalization in the Rust Belt: A Motor City Story." PSC Research Report No. 07-620. April 2007.
Harding, David J. 2006. "Cultural Context, Sexual Behavior, and Romantic Relationships in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods." PSC Research Report No. 06-612. December 2006.
Harding, David J. 2005. "Neighborhood Violence and the Age Structure of Peer Networks: Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods." PSC Research Report No. 05-586. December 2005.
Xie, Yu, and Emily Greenman. 2005. "Segmented Assimilation Theory: A Reformulation and Empirical Test." PSC Research Report No. 05-581. August 2005.
Danziger, Sheldon H., and Sandra K. Danziger. 2005. "The U.S. Social Safety Net and Poverty: Lessons Learned and Promising Approaches." PSC Research Report No. 05-580. August 2005.
Danziger, Sheldon H. 2002. "Approaching the Limit: Early National Lessons from Welfare Reform." PSC Research Report No. 02-507. June 2002.
Danziger, Sandra K., Mary E. Corcoran, Sheldon H. Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Ariel Kalil, Judith A. Levine, Daniel Rosen, and Kristin Seedfeldt. 2002. "Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients." PSC Research Report No. 02-508. June 2002.
Pollack, Harold A., Sheldon H. Danziger, Rukmalie Jayakody, and Kristin S. Seefeldt. 2002. "Substance Use Among Welfare Recipients: Trends and Policy Responses." PSC Research Report No. 02-511. June 2002.
Other Reports
Levy, Helen. 2006. "Health insurance and the wage gap." NBER Working Paper No. 11975.
Lee, Chul-In, and Gary Solon. 2006. "Trends in intergenerational income mobility." NBER Working Paper No. 12007.
Levinsohn, James A., and Margaret Stokes McMillan. 2005. "Does food aid harm the poor? : household evidence from Ethiopia." NBER Working Paper No. 11048.
Leibbrandt, Murray, James A. Levinsohn, and Justin McCrary. 2005. "Incomes in South Africa since the fall of apartheid." NBER Working Paper No. 11384.
