The Roosevelt Institution

Review of Policy Research

The Roosevelt Institution and the Policy Studies Organization are pleased to announce a special collaborative issue of the Review of Policy Research. This edition of the renowned journal exclusively features Roosevelt fellows exploring, evaluating, and dissecting the pressing issue of domestic and international poverty. The eight articles were chosen by Roosevelt's student editorial board for their rigorous analysis and creative contribution to the process of finding solutions to this challenge. As the editors put it:

As [income] disparities have increased, the security net that the private sector once provided for Americans has all but disappeared, and this has occurred as the developing global economy has put American workers increasingly at risk. These developments have resurrected a problem whose solution had seemed attainable to President Lyndon Johnson's generation....

Finding this solution marks the challenge that our generation has inherited....The optimism of the late 1990s did not lead us to expect this inheritance, yet we believe that we have the knowledge, the resources, and the optimism to address these issues. The articles in this issue of Review of Policy Research begin to do so...

We hope that our readers find in them evidence of the ability of young people to generate the necessary solutions. More important, we hope that these articles inspire others to examine poverty, to find solutions, and to work for political change. --> [more]

Letter from the Editors
Alexander Bartik, Eric Kafka, and Jesse Wolfson

The World in 2050
Paul Rich, President, Policy Studies Organization

Poverty and the Home
• The Renter Squeeze: Minority and Low-Income Renters Feel Pressures from Housing Boom and Weak Labor Market - Nathaniel Loewentheil, Roosevelt Instititution, and Christian E. Weller, Center for American Progress
• Hedonic Estimation and Policy Significance of the Impact of HOPE VI on Neighborhood Property Values - Edward Bair and John M. Fitzgerald, Bowdoin College

Poverty in Society
• Voter Disenfranchisement and Policy toward Election Reforms - Anne Kiehl Friedman, Stanford University
• Policy Implications of Culturally Based Perceptions in College Choice - Jennifer A. Zimbroff, Stanford University
• Gender Role Ideologies and Marriage Promotion: State Policy Choices and Suggestions for Improvement - Deborah A. Harris and Domenico Parisi, Mississippi State University

Poverty Abroad
• Once Upon a Time in Volcán, Costa Rica: Integrating Values into Watershed Management and Poverty Alleviation - Mollie Chapman, Stanford University
• Orphan Living Situations in Malawi: A Comparison of Orphanages and Foster Homes - Brigitte Zimmerman, Stanford University
• Effects of Exchange Rate Regime on IMF Program Participation - Robert Trudel, Yale University

• Roosevelt Institution at UT Austin
  Texas Roosevelt co-sponsors Addressing Poverty: Challenges in a Politicized World with 21st Century Policy Makers.
• Roosevelt Institution at the University of Chicago Center on Poverty and Economic Oportunity
  The Center on Poverty and Economic Opportunity at the University of Chicago is committed to the alleviation and eventual elimination of poverty in the United States. Poverty tears at America's economic, social, and political fabric, and it is the duty of this center and others to reinvigorate what is currently a pitiful national discourse on this pressing issue. America's strength rests on its ability to fulfill its ideals. Poverty must be alleviated and eventually eliminated to bring this country closer to the American promise of opportunity and justice for all its citizens.
• Roosevelt Institution at Yale College Center on Economics
  The Center on the Economy’s research this semester focused on researching the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and a project on the relationship between New Haven and the surrounding suburbs. The EITC project, done in conjunction with Project Opportunity, took the form of three briefs prepared by the center. The first brief was on poverty in Connecticut and New Haven, the second covered the EITC in other states, and the third combines the first two. They are currently being used by project opportunity in their communications with legislators regarding the EITC in Connecticut.
• Roosevelt Institution at Stanford University Center on International Development
  In a post-Cold War Era, aid, politics and economics have become inextricably linked.Through dialogue and research, our Center aims to promote a cooperation that can reduce human suffering and increase development within this new global framework. Our Fellows focus on the impact of U.S.policies, actions and inactions around the globe.