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Zachary Parolin
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 58
Citations - 1433
Zachary Parolin is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Social policy. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 44 publications receiving 742 citations. Previous affiliations of Zachary Parolin include University of Antwerp & Bocconi University.
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COVID-19, school closures, and child poverty: a social crisis in the making.
Wim Van Lancker,Zachary Parolin +1 more
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Large socio-economic, geographic and demographic disparities exist in exposure to school closures.
Zachary Parolin,Emma K. Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a U.S. School Closure and Distance Learning Database (SCLDB) that tracks in-person visits across more than 100,000 schools throughout 2020, and reveal that school closures from September to December 2020 were more common in schools with lower third grade math scores and higher shares of students from racial/ethnic minorities, who experience homelessness, have limited English proficiency and are eligible for free/reduced-price school lunches.
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The Care Burden during COVID-19: A National Database of Child Care Closures in the United States
Emma K. Lee,Zachary Parolin +1 more
TL;DR: The authors use anonymized and aggregated mobile phone data to track year-over-year changes in visits to child care centers across most counties in the United States during each month of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, revealing that two-thirds of child care center closed in April 2020, while one-third remained closed inApril 2021.
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Black–White child poverty gap in the United States
TL;DR: This paper found that racial inequities in states' administration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program contributed to the impoverishment of approximately 256,000 black children per year from 2012-2014.
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The Role of Poverty and Racial Discrimination in Exacerbating the Health Consequences of COVID-19
Zachary Parolin,Emma Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors synthesize recent evidence suggesting that high levels of poverty in the U.S. compared to other high-income countries, as well as historic and ongoing racial/ethnic discrimination, have exacerbated the health consequences of COVID-19, particularly for racial/ ethnic minorities.