Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan
Joan and Sanford Weill HallOur working papers and reports present new research supported by Poverty Solutions, providing an in-depth look at data and findings.
Working papers published by the National Poverty Center previously housed at U-M are linked at the bottom of the page.
The first phase of the three-phase Child Care Initiative Project focused on collecting data from the community about views, needs, and ideas for the future of Emmet County’s child care system.
Researchers linked decision data from Michigan’s COVID Emergency Rental Assistance (CERA) program with pandemic-era eviction records to estimate the proportion of Detroit renter households that faced an eviction filing or judgment within six months of CERA approval.
For many low- and moderate- income Detroiters, the necessary ingredients for financial health and financial stability are out of reach. Indeed, just over half of Detroit residents are either financially insecure (32%) or in financial trouble (24%).
By Karen Ann Kling, Jennifer Wixson, Laura Tuthill, and William D. Lopez
By Alexa Eisenberg and Kate Brantley
by Natasha V. Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore, Nicole Kovski, and H. Luke Shaefer
Alexandra K. Murphy, Karina Lopez-MacDonald, Jamie Griffin, and Alix Gould-Werth
By Alexa Eisenberg and Katlin Brantley
By H. Luke Shaefer, Brian A. Jacob, Natasha V. Pilkauskas, Elizabeth Rhodes, and Katherine Richard
By Nicardo McInnis, Katherine Michelmore, and Natasha Pilkauskas
By Kasia Klasa, Naquia Unwala, Scott L. Greer, Julia A. Wolfson, and Charley E. Willison
By Elizabeth Benton, Margaret Dewar, Robert Goodspeed, and Robert Gillett
By Sara Heller
By Richard Rodems and Fabian Pfeffer
By Rachael Kohl
By Analidis Ochoa, H. Luke Shaefer, and Andrew Grogan-Kaylor
By Patrick Meehan, Marquan Jackson, Alize Asberry Payne, and Trina Shanks
By Ryan Ruggiero, Josh Rivera, and Patrick Cooney
By Poverty Solutions’ Detroit Partnership for Economic Mobility team
By Afton Branche-Wilson and Patrick Cooney
By H. Luke Shaefer and Joshua Rivera
By Pinghui Wu, Joshua Rivera, and Samiul Jubaed
By Katherine Michelmore and Natasha V. Pilkauskas
By Terri Friedline, SeYoung Oh, Thomas Klemm, and Jase Kugiya
By Chris Warland and Melissa Young
By Michael Evangelist and H. Luke Shaefer
By Harry Holzer and Joshua Rivera
By Joshua Akers and Eric Seymour
By Richard Rodems
The Inequality Lab
By Tawanna R. Dillahunt and Alex Lu
Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
By Stephanie S. Moore, Michael Gordon, Elise Gahan, and Julie Gowda
By Tawanna R. Dillahunt and Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan
By Xiang Yan, Xilei Zhao, Yuan Han, Pascal Van Hentenryck, and Tawanna Dillahunt
By H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin, Vincent Fusaro, and Pinghui Wu
By Taylor A. Begley, Umit G. Gurun, Amiyatosh Purnanandam, and Daniel Weagley
By Alexa Eisenberg, Roshanak Mehdipanah, Ted Phillips, and Michele Oberholtzer
By William Elliott, Nicholas Sorensen, Megan O’Brien, Elizabeth Berland, and Briana Starks
By Eleanor Martin, Christina Weiland, and Lindsay C. Page
By H. Luke Shaefer and Joshua Rivera
By Jeremy Lapedis, Edith C. Kieffer, Carrie Rheingans, and Marianne Udow-Phillips
By Natasha Pilkauskas, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Jane Waldfogel
By Deborah A. Phillips, Anna D. Johnson, Christina Weiland, and Jane E. Hutchison
By Taylor A. Begley and Amiyatosh Purnanandam
By Christine Robinson, Trina Shanks, and Patrick Meehan