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University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
Exploring the scope of Entitlement reform options
A new volume on entitlement reform, edited by UKCPR Director James Ziliak and Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University is now available in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Understanding Senior Food-Related Hardships
UKCPR has launched a new research initiative on food insecurity and related challenges facing older persons in the United States. See current research projects.
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UKCPR Faculty Affiliate 2019 Publications
UKCPR's faculty affiliates have had a busy year in 2019, with numerous publications in noted journals.
In the News
Effects of Child Tax Credit Design on Employment
Recent expansions of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) have generated interest in how the credit affects parental labor supply and child poverty. However, there is limited empirical evidence of the labor supply effects of the CTC outside of the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We address this knowledge gap using 1997-2019 data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to provide updated estimates of how low and middle-income parents’ employment responds to changes in incentives for three groups of parents: unmarried mothers, married mothers, and married fathers.
The Lifecycle Transmission of Food Security
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we provide the first evidence on the causal transmission of food security from childhood to young adulthood. A causal assessment is complicated by unobserved factors that jointly influence food security status as a child and subsequently as a young adult. Using nonparametric partial identification methods, we find that growing up in a food secure household increases the chances of being food secure as a young adult by between 5.7 and 10.5 percentage points, or at least 7.9%.
Mission Statement
The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit academic research center established in 2002. Our research informs evidence-based policy on the causes, consequences, and correlates of poverty, inequality, and food insecurity in the United States.
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UKCPR is a member of the Collaborative of Poverty Centers sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with underwriting from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The other member poverty centers are located at Columbia University, Howard University, Stanford University, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, University of Michigan, and University of Washington. The goal of the CPC is to improve the effectiveness of public policies to reduce poverty and inequality and their impacts on the well-being of the American people. |
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Christopher Bollinger is the Sturgill Endowed Professor of Economics in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. |
Chris’s research focuses on econometrics, labor, and applied microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on measurement error in large datasets used extensively by researchers. His research looks at how response errors and non-responses affect the measurement of statistics such as earnings, participation in poverty alleviation programs, and crime.
Chris’s work has appeared in top-tier journals such as the Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Econometrics.
In addition to his research, Chris has also provided administrative leadership as a faculty member at UK. He has served as director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, which produces the annual Kentucky Economic Outlook, and he is currently executive director of the Kentucky Research Data Center, which is part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Federal Statistical Research Data Center network.
Most recently Chris was recognized for his research accomplishments by being named a 2021-22 UK Research Professor.
Read more about Chris on his faculty page.
