Our Policy Briefs are designed to summarize key academic research findings, highlighting important implications for policy.

Receipt of Public Benefits and Private Support among Low-income Households with Children after the Great Recession Scott W. Allard, University of Chicago, Sandra Danziger and Maria Wathen, University of Michigan (#31)

Employment Problems in the Wake of the Great Recession: Findings from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study Alix Gould-Werth and Sarah A. Burgard, University of Michigan (#30)

Housing Instability and Health: Findings from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study Sarah A. Burgard, University of Michigan and Kristin S. Seefedlt, Indiana University (#29)

Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011 H. Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan and Kathryn Edin, Harvard University (#28)

Veteran Status and Material Hardship: The Moderating Influence of Disability. Colleen Heflin, University of Missouri (#27)

Recertification, Family Composition, and WIC Participation by Children. Christopher Swann, University of North Caroline at Greensboro (#26)

Career Earnings Volatility and Health Insurance Coverage. Matthew S. Rutledge, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (#25)

Savings Policy and Decisionmaking in Low-Income Households Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and Eldar Shafir, Princeton University (#24)

An Economic View of Food Deserts in the United States Marianne Bitler, University of California-Irvine and Steven J. Haider, Michigan State University (#23)

Sharing Lessons from the First Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the United States James Riccio, MDRC (#22)

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty David J. Harding, University of Michigan, Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, and Mario Luis Small, University of Chicago (#21)

The Health Effects of Social and Economic Policy: The Promise and Challenge for Research and Policy Harold Pollack, University of Chicago, George A. Kaplan, University of Michigan, James S. House, University of Michigan, and Robert F. Schoeni, University of Michigan (#20)

The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood Sheldon H. Danziger, University of Michigan and Cecilia Elena Rouse, Princeton University (#19)

Social and Economic Policies as Health Policy: Moving Towards a New Approach to Improving Health in America Harold Pollack, University of Chicago, George A. Kaplan, University of Michigan, James S. House, University of Michigan, and Robert F. Schoeni, University of Michigan (#18)

The Assets and Liabilities Held by Low-Income Families John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin - Madison and Ananth Seshardi, University of Wisconsin - Madison (#17)

The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial & Ethnic Disparities Persist Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan and David R. Harris, Cornell University (#16)

Homeownership: America's Dream? Raphael W. Bostic and Kwan Ok Lee, University of Southern California (#15)

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider, Harvard University (#14)

Access to Financial Services, Savings, and Assets Among the Poor Michael S. Barr, Professor of Law, University of Michigan; and Rebecca M. Blank, Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (#13)

The Causes of Racial Disparities in Business Performance Robert W. Fairlie, Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz; and Alicia M. Robb, Research Associate in Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz and Senior Economist with Beacon Economics (#12)

Income Volatility and Food Assistance Programs Dean Jolliffe, Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA; and James Ziliak, Professor of Microeconomics and Director of the Center for Poverty Research, University of Kentucky (#11)

Helping Disconnected Single Mothers Rebecca M. Blank, Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy & Professor of Economics, University of Michigan and Robert V. Kerr Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Brian K. Kovak, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. (#10)

Education and Health David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and Dean for the Social Sciences, Harvard University; and Adriana Lleras-Muney, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. (#9)

The New Face of the Low-Wage Workforce George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. (#8)

Has Welfare Reform Changed State Expenditure Patterns? Therese J. McGuire , Kellogg School of Management and David F. Merriman , Loyola University (#7)

How Are Low-Skilled Women Doing in the Labor Market? Rebecca Blank, and Heidi Shierholz, University of Toronto (#6)

How Do Tax Policies Affect Low Income Workers? Kevin A. Hassett, The American Enterprise Institute and Anne B. Moore, University of California, Berkeley (#5)

Effects of Welfare Reform on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program. Lucie Schmidt. (#4)

Family Support During the Transition to Adulthood. Robert Schoeni and Karen Ross. (#3)

Substance Abuse and Welfare Reform. Rukmalie Jayakody, Kristin Seefeldt, Sheldon Danziger, and Harold Pollack. (#2)

Changes in the Distribution of Children’s Family Income Over the 1990’s. Rebecca M. Blank and Robert F. Schoeni. (#1)