James X. Sullivan
Professor of Economics
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PUBLICATIONS:
Income and Poverty
in the COVID-19 Pandemic (forthcoming), with Jeehoon
Han and Bruce Meyer, Brookings Papers
on Economic Activity.
Increasing Community College
Completion Rates among Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Randomized
Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Case Management Intervention (2020), with Bill Evans
Melissa Kearney, and Brendan Perry, Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management, Volume 39:4, Fall, 930-965.
A Cautionary Tale of Using
Data from the Tail (2020), Demography.
Another Plea for Caution
When Using Survey Income Data From the Far-Left Tail (2020), Demography.
Inequality in the Joint
Distribution of Consumption and Time Use (2020), with Jeehoon Han and Bruce Meyer, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 191, November, 104106.
A
Cautionary Tale about Emergency Financial Assistance without Services:
Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation at a Community College
(2019),
with Bill Evans,
Melissa Kearney, and Brendan Perry, American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 109: 218-22.
Does
Emergency Financial Assistance Reduce Crime? (2019), with Caroline
Palmer and David Phillips, Journal of
Public Economics, Volume 169, January, 34-51. [Erratum].
The Role
of Nonprofits in Designing and Implementing Evidence-Based Programs (2018), Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, 678(1), 155-163.
Open access version
Abstract
The Impact of Homelessness Prevention
Programs on Homelessness (2016), with Bill Evans
and Melanie Wallskog, Science, 353(6300), 694-699.
Materials and
Methods Supplementary text
Abstract
Data
and Programs
Media coverage by Science
Magazine
Media coverage by WGN
Radio, Chicago
Household
Surveys in Crisis (2015), with Bruce
Meyer and Wallace Mok, Journal of
Economic Perspectives, 29(4), 199-226.
For
earlier version see NBER
Working Paper # 21399.
The
Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and
Diary Surveys Informative? (2015), with Adam Bee and Bruce
Meyer, in Improving the Measurement
of Consumer Expenditures, Christopher Carroll, Thomas Crossley, and John Sabelhaus, editors. University of Chicago Press.
Consumption
and Income Inequality and the Great Recession (2013), with Bruce Meyer, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 103(3): 178-83.
Winning
the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession (2012), with Bruce Meyer, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall, p. 133-183.
For
earlier versions see NBER
Working Paper # 18718 and NBER Working Paper # 14827.
Identifying
the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New
Supplemental Poverty Measure (2012), with Bruce
Meyer, Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 26(3), Summer, 111-136.
Consumption and Income
Poverty over the Business Cycle (2011), with Bruce Meyer. Research in
Labor Economics, vol. 32, 51-82.
Viewpoint: Further Evidence on Measuring the
Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption (2011), with Bruce Meyer, Canadian Journal of Economics, February, 44(1), pages 52-87.
For
earlier version see NBER
Working Paper # 13413.
Changes in the Consumption, Income, and
Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families (2008), with Bruce Meyer, American Economic Review, 98(5), December, 2221-2241.Download
Auxiliary Tables here.
Borrowing During
Unemployment: Unsecured Debt as a Safety Net (2008), Journal of Human Resources, 43(2):
383-412.
The Relationship between Income and Material Hardship?
(2008), with Leslie Turner and Sheldon Danziger, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 27(1): 63-81.
Welfare Reform, Saving, and Vehicle Ownership: Do Asset
Limits and Vehicle Exemptions Matter? (2006), Journal
of Human Resources, 41(1): 72-105.
The
Effects of Tax and Welfare Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers
in the 1980s and 1990s (2004),
with Bruce Meyer, Journal of Public Economics, 88(7-8): 1387-1420.
For earlier version see NBER
Working Paper # 8298.
Summary of this paper in NBER
Digest.
Measuring
the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption (2003), with Bruce Meyer, Journal of Human Resources, 38(S): 1180-1220.
For
earlier version see NBER Working
Paper # 9760.
WORKING PAPERS:
Comprehensive
Approaches to Increasing Student Completion in Higher Education: A Survey of
the Landscape, with Rachel Fulcher Dawson and
Melissa Kearney, August 2020.
Fighting Poverty One Family at
a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic,
Individualized, Wrap-Around Services (2020),
with Bill Evans, Shawna Kolka and Patrick Turner, a
Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities study, under review.
Consumption and Income
Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s (2017), with Bruce Meyer, NBER Working Paper
No. w23655.
Levels and Changes in
Income Poverty, Consumption Poverty and Material Well-Being:
A Response to Shaefer and Rivera (2017)
(2018), with Bruce Meyer, working paper.
The Material
Well-Being of the Poor and the Middle Class Since 1980 (2011), with Bruce Meyer.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Effects of Homelessness
Prevention on Health and Healthcare Utilization,
with Henry Downes and David Phillips, a Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic
Opportunities study.
Consumption and Income Poverty
for Those 65 and Over, with Bruce Meyer.
Under-reporting, Take-up, and
the Distributional Effects of the Food Stamp Program,
with Bruce Meyer.
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