Current Research at ISERP
The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: Government Contracting, Material Resources, and the Poor
by Nicole Marwell (Sociology) and Aaron Gullickson (Sociology)
The proposed research project draws together insights from the literatures on social provision and urban poverty to build a theory about the allocation and availability of an under-studied component of the U.S. welfare state: publicly-funded social provision services. Hierarchical linear models and GIS mapping will be used to examine the distribution of contracts to nonprofit organizations (NPOs), and to examine the relationship of contracts to neighborhood- and organization-level variables, including neighborhood socioeconomic need, organizational effectiveness, and neighborhood political strength. A new, unique dataset, compiled by the project PI from administrative records, will be used for the analysis. It contains records of all of the contracts from New York City and New York State to NPOs in New York City. There are 25,344 NPO contracts in the dataset, covering the years 1997-2001.
See Also
- Seed grants received by Nicole Marwell
Funded by National Science Foundation »
