Poverty and Discrimination / Kevin Lang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lang, Kevin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Economic policy.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 407 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it. Using rigorous statistical analysis and economic thinking to judge what the best research is and which theories match the evidence, this book clears the ground for students, social scientists, and policymakers who want to understand--and help reduce--poverty and discrimination. It evaluates how well antipoverty and antidiscrimination policies and programs have worked--and whether they have sometimes actually made the problems worse. And it provides new insights about the causes of, and possible solutions to, poverty and discrimination. The book begins by asking, "Who is poor?" and by giving a brief history of poverty and poverty policy in the United States in the twentieth century, including the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Among the topics covered are the changing definition of poverty, the relation between economic growth and poverty, and the effects of labor markets, education, family composition, and concentrated poverty. The book then evaluates the evidence on racial discrimination in areas such as education, employment, and criminal justice, as well as sex discrimination in the labor market, and assesses the effectiveness of antidiscrimination policies. Throughout, the book is grounded in the conviction that we must have much better empirical knowledge of poverty and discrimination if we hope to reduce them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part 1. Poverty

Chapter 2. Who Is Poor?

Chapter 3. The Evolution of Poverty Policy

Chapter 4. Trends in Poverty

Chapter 5. Labor Market Policies

Chapter 6. Family Composition

Chapter 7. Concentrated Poverty

Chapter 8. Education and Education Reform

Chapter 9. Welfare Reform

Part 2. Discrimination

Chapter 10. Discrimination: Theory

Chapter 11. Race Discrimination in the Labor Market

Chapter 12. Race Discrimination and Education

Chapter 13. Race Discrimination in Customer Markets and the Judicial System

Chapter 14. Sex Discrimination

Chapter 15. Conclusion: An Agenda to Decrease Poverty and Discrimination?

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786612992032

9781282992030

1282992031

9781400839193

140083919X

OCLC:

966824795