Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wrap-Around Services

We are indebted to Matthew Brown, Quentin Colo, Vivian Crumlish, Emily David, Kyle Dougher, Holly Evans, Mary Kate Lederer, Catherine Lawlor, Andrew Meisenbacher, Emily Merola, and Edward Murphy for excellent research assistance. The paper has benefitted from comments from Chris Kelly and workshop participants at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Lafayette College, MIT, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, the Institute for Research on Poverty, the IPA 2019 Researcher Gathering, and the University of Melbourne. We are grateful to our research partners at Catholic Charities Fort Worth. The study ID in the American Economic Association's RCT Registry is AEARCTR-0000722. This research was financially supported by funding from the Morgridge Family Foundation, the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Raskob Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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