Poverty and Public Policy

Developing Care: Recent Research on the Care Economy and Economic Development

Published: | 8:00 pm | Posted in: Poverty and Public Policy

Policy makers are beginning to appreciate the constraints that unpaid care work imposes on both economic development and the empowerment of women in low-income countries. Empirical research on these topics is in its infancy but is already yielding significant results. This paper contextualizes and reviews recent research on unpaid care work in the Global South, […]

Family Options Study: Short-Term Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families

Published: | 6:14 pm | Posted in: Poverty and Public Policy

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) undertook the Family Options Study to gather evidence about which types of housing and services interventions work best for homeless families. The study compares the effects of three active interventions— permanent housing subsidy (SUB), community-based rapid re-housing (CBRR), and project-based transitional housing (PBTH)—to one […]