Vulnerable Families Research Program
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Share of Tax Filers Claiming EITC Increases Across States and Place Types Between 2007 and 2010 In this brief, Authors Beth Mattingly and Elizabeth Kneebone use Internal Revenue Service tax filing data to show that the share of tax returns claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) increased between 2007 and 2010, as did the size of the average credit claimed… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Safety Net, Tax |
| Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners This brief, Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners, investigates the increased role employed wives played in family economic stability prior to, during, and in the two years after the Great Recession, and makes comparisons to the 1990-1991 and 2001… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Family, Gender, Income |
| Underemployment in Urban and Rural America, 2005-2012 Author Justin Young reports that underemployment (or involuntary part-time work) rates doubled during the second year of the recession, reaching roughly 6.5 percent in 2009. This increase was equally steep in both rural and urban places. By March of 2012,… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Income, Rural, Urban |
| Over Sixteen Million Children in Poverty in 2011 UPDATE: This brief has been updated to include revised versions of Figure 1 (page 2) and Appendix 1 (page 6). The original version of this brief overestimated the statistical significance of some state-level changes in child poverty between 2010 and 2011, and has… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Poverty |
| Beginning Teachers Are More Common in Rural, High-Poverty, and Racially Diverse Schools This brief considers whether the concentration of beginning teachers in a district is associated with the district's poverty rate, racial composition, or urbanicity.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Poverty, Rural |
| Mathematics Achievement Gaps Between Suburban Students and Their Rural and Urban Peers Increase Over Time In this brief, authors Suzanne Graham and Lauren Provost examine whether attending a school in a rural, urban, or suburban community is related to children’s mathematics achievement in kindergarten, and whether increases in mathematics achievement between… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Rural, Urban |
| Who Cares for the Sick Kids? Parents’ Access to Paid Time to Care for a Sick Child This brief analyzes employed parents’ access to five or more paid sick days annually to care for a sick child in 2008.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Health, Income, Wages |
| Understanding Child Abuse in Rural and Urban America: Risk Factors and Maltreatment Substantiation Using a large national sample of child maltreatment reports, this brief compares the outcomes of child maltreatment cases in rural versus urban places and identifies the characteristics associated with substantiation. Child abuse cases substantiated in rural and… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health, Rural, Urban |
| Renters More Often Burdened by Housing Costs After Recession: Nearly Half of All Renters Spent Over 30 Percent of Income on Housing by 2010 This brief uses data from the 2007 and 2010 American Community Survey to document changes in the proportion of household income spent on rental costs (rent plus utilities) during the Great Recession, by region (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) and place type (… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Housing, Rural, Urban |
| The Effects of State EITC Expansion on Children’s Health This brief examines the impact of state-level adoption of Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) on a set of health-related outcomes for children, including: (1) health insurance coverage, (2) use of preventive medical and dental care, and (3) health status measures… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health, Safety Net |
