Publications
2024
COVID-19 Employment Shocks and Safety Net Expansion: Health Effects on Displaced Workers
Social Science Research2023
Dreams Deferred: Downward Mobility and Making Ends Meet in the Service Sector
Shift Project Research Brief2022
2021
Follow the Money—and Help it Flow
American Banker2020
Taking Count: A Study on Poverty in the Bay Area
Taking Count Survey Report, Tipping Point CommunityPoverty, Precarity and Privilege in the Bay Area
Taking Count Survey Report, Tipping Point Community2019
Bail and Pre-Trial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation
RSF Journal of the Social Sciences2018
2017
Income Volatility in the Service Sector: Contours, Causes, and Consequences
Aspen Institute Financial Security Program2016
2015
The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage
Social Science QuarterlyThe Great Recession, Fertility, and Uncertainty: Evidence from the States
Journal of Marriage and FamilyLessons Learned from Non-Marriage Experiments
Future of Children2011
Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity2009
Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement
Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households2007
H&R Block’s Refund Anticipation Loans: Perilous Profits at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Business Solutions for the Global PoorNew Savings from Old Innovations: Asset Building for the Less Affluent
Financing Low-Income Communities: Models, Obstacles, and Future Directions2006
Splitting Tax Refunds and Building Savings: An Empirical Test
Tax Policy and the Economy