CID Speaker Series

Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host David Brady, professor of public policy and management at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy.

Abstract: Black-white inequalities in poverty are large, persistent, and consequential. Yet little research on these inequalities incorporates health insurance into poverty measurement. Building on advances in incorporating health insurance into income, this study tests whether valuing health insurance and Medicaid expansions through the Affordable Care Act reduced Black-white inequalities in poverty. It analyzes within-person, within-state, within-year variation among Black and white individuals under age 65 from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The findings show that augmented poverty measures produce a smaller Black-white poverty gap and that state-level Medicaid expansions significantly reduced Black poverty without affecting white poverty.

David Brady is Professor of Public Policy & Management at the USC Price School of Public Policy. He studies poverty, social policy, racial inequality, immigration, and policymaking.

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