IPR RAPID RESEARCH REPORTS

IPR’s Rapid Research Report series serves to quickly disseminate preliminary research findings and analyses by its faculty. Some of the latest titles are below.

Food Insecurity

The Impact of SNAP Emergency Allotments on SNAP Benefits and Food Insufficiency ( January 2023)

Diane Schanzenbach (IPR/SESP), Northwestern University

This report estimates the amount and impact of Emergency Allotment benefits. Some states opted to terminate EA payments while they were still allowable. This variation provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of EA payments on the share of households reporting that they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat over the previous week (see p. 10).

MIGRATION & FERTILITY

Migration from Africa to France: New Findings on Fertility Change (February 2022)

The Project on Collaborative Research: Migration and Fertility, Northwestern University and the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

This report shows that African women who migrate to France have more children than French-born women— but not as many as women in their home countries. The migrant women’s use of contraception also comes to resemble that of French women more than the practices of women in the countries they left.

Education

The Impact of Chicago’s Universal Prekindergarten Expansion on Access to School-Based Pre-K (May 2023)

Terri Sabol (IPR/SESP) and Diane Schanzenbach (IPR/ SESP), Northwestern University

Over the 2018–19 school year, Chicago began expanding free, full-day prekindergarten (pre-K) for 4-year-olds through Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This report examines the impact of CPS’ universal prekindergarten (UPK) expansion, detailing its effects on capacity, enrollment, and programming in CPS schools.

Public Opinion

The COVID States Project is a consortium of researchers from Northwestern, Harvard, Rutgers, and Northeastern universities. They have conducted more than 100 public opinion surveys since July 2020. James Druckman (IPR/ Political Science) is one of the survey’s co-leaders.

Vaccines, Masks, and COVID Tests

Survey: Is the CDC Missing the Mark on Vaccination Rates? (#100) National Survey Investigates How Antivirals Are Used to Treat COVID-19 (#90)

Parents Cite News and Government as Top Sources for Child Vaccine Info (#87)

Beliefs in COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Are Declining, But 16% of Americans Still Hold Vaccine Misperceptions (#82)

Mental Health

As Social Lives Resume, a Mental Health Crisis Continues (#98) Government

Survey: Half of Americans Uncertain About Ability to Identify False Political Claims (#99)

Twitter Use Dips After Elon Musk’s Takeover, Largely Driven by Democrats’ Departure (#97)

Survey Looks at the State of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the End of 2022 (#96)

Nearly 8 in 10 Americans Still Concerned About Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (#94)

A Slight Majority of Americans Approve of the FBI’s Search of Mar-a-Lago (#92)

Governors’ Approval Ratings Hold Steady Before November Elections (#91)

After Supreme Court Ruling Overturned Roe v. Wade, Support for Abortion Increased (#89)

National Survey Examines Whether State Abortion Policies Represent Citizen Views (#88)

Update on Executive Approval of Management of Pandemic (#83)

View the complete list of IPR Rapid Research Reports.