Tag: poverty
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Tracking family and intergenerational poverty using administrative data
Project leads: Jennie Romich, Professor of Social Welfare at the UW School of Social Work and Faculty Director of the West Coast Poverty Center Data scientist: Jessica Godwin DSSG fellows: Zhaowen Guo, Ihsan Kahveci, Betelhem Aklilu Muno, Eliot Stanton Participant bios available here. Project Summary: This project will examine whether the Seattle $15 minimum wage policy reduced poverty or affected intergenerational economic…
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CrowdSensing Census: A heterogenous-based tools for estimating poverty
Project Lead: Afra Mashhadi, Bell Labs, Nokia Data Scientist Leads: Ariel Rokem (primary) and Jake VanderPlas (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Rachael Dottle, Myeong Lee, Imam Subkhan & Carlos Espino Project Goals: Household surveys and censuses, periodically conducted by National Statistical Institutes and the like, collect information describing the social and economic well being of a nation, as well as…