Research
Current Projects
Peter Paul Career Development Professorship
SSW Investigator(s):
Marah A. Curtis, PhD
Funding Source:
Boston University
Project Description:
The Peter Paul Career Development Professorship is awarded
to outstanding newly hired faculty across the University. Dr. Curtis
will use this funding to pursue her research focusing on how income-conditioned
public benefits affect families. Often families are eligible for and
receive a number of subsidies or benefits, each with varying eligibility
criteria, earnings calculations, and household composition requirements.
These programs in turn affect core decisions about whom a person can
live with, whether and what type of employment they will seek, and many
other choices families make. These choices directly affect the environment
in which children are being raised and their outcomes. Benefit policies,
however, do not occur in isolation; they operate on people's lives through
local area environments and labor markets. Dr. Curtis' research will
attempt to account for these macro environmental factors, as well as
the specificity of a particular benefit policy.
