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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth.

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Just as investment in physical capital is an important driver of economic growth, investment in human capital is key to the health of the economy as a whole, as well as family wellbeing. Equitable Growth supports research to better understand how unequal access to supportive environments, quality education, and other human capital development opportunities not only drives unequal outcomes for families but also undermines future economic growth.

Featured Research

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How does early childhood care and education affect U.S. families and workers, and which policies support child participation and boost the quality of care?

Families
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A review of the state of child care in the United States

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Can remote work attenuate mothers’ mobility constraints in the U.S. labor force?

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
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Why federal food assistance became politically polarizing—and what to do about it

Families
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Factsheet: What we know about the federal employer-provided child care credit and how can it be better used by businesses

FamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
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Factsheet: What the research says about the economic impacts of reproductive care

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesLabor

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The child care economy

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The coming public debt scare should not spook U.S. policymakers from investing in physical and social infrastructure

Tax & MacroeconomicsFamilies
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How Exceptional is American Job Quality? Decent- and Poverty-Pay Rates by Age, Gender, and Education in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and France*

LaborFamiliesInequality & Mobility
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Does Paid Sick Leave Affect Job Turnover?

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TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave
Equitable Recovery

Completing the unfinished New Deal to overcome 21st century U.S. economic inequality

FamiliesInequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Homeownership Disparities and Access to Family Child Care

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
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Is COVID-19 Exacerbating Inequities in Subsidized Child Care?: Policy Lessons to Strengthen the Home-Based Sector

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
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School-to-Work Pathway and Racial/Ethnic Inequality among College Graduates

FamiliesLabor
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Joint Ventures in Dialysis Care: Improving Coordination or Enabling Market Power?

CompetitionFamilies
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Who Weathers the Storm? The Unequal Effects of Hurricanes in the United States

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Voices of Home-Based Providers: Perspectives from the Early Childhood Field

LaborFamilies
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Which Policies are Effective at Reducing Racial Differences in the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty?

Inequality & MobilityFamilies

Book

Finding Time

The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

By Heather Boushey

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Experts on the issue

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Trevon Logan

Ohio State University

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Jessica H. Brown

University of South Carolina

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Daniel Schneider

Harvard University

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Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Columbia University

Visiting Fellow

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Jesse Rothstein

University of California, Berkeley

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