AREAS OF RESEARCH
Economic Security
SP2’s Centers and Faculty demonstrate the School’s expertise in income inequality, economic mobility, universal basic income, and the labor market impact of public policies.
Featured Centers
Center for Guaranteed Income Research
Center for Social Mobility and Prosperity
FEATURED FACULTY
Ioana E. Marinescu, PhD
Associate Professor; PhD, London School of Economics, 2007. Imperfect competition in the labor market, antitrust, and competition policy as applied to the labor market; evaluation of the labor market impact of public policies, e.g. unemployment insurance and the minimum wage; unconditional cash transfers, the universal basic income; technology and structural changes in the labor market; green jobs.
FEATURED FACULTY
Amy Beth Castro, PhD
Assistant Professor; PhD, CUNY Hunter, 2014. Economic mobility; guaranteed income; innovation; how social policies produce gender and race disparities in housing and lending.
FEATURED FACULTY
Meredith Doherty, PhD, LCSW
Assistant Professor; PhD, Graduate Center of CUNY. Financial burden of serious illness; cancer disparities; access to healthcare; healthcare-based social needs interventions; palliative care and oncology social work; dissemination and implementation science.
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Faculty & Research
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Study: Guaranteed income improved people’s health during pandemic
Associate Professor Amy Castro of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) is co-author of the final results announced today from the Stockton pilot program, which show connections between financial security and better health for people who received $500 monthly cash payments for two years as part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED).
Faculty & Research
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SP2’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research links economic policy and mental health
The potential of guaranteed income to support mental health is the topic of a new article that reviews emergent evidence of cash transfers as a mental ill-health prevention strategy.