OPR affiliated faculty are some of the nation’s foremost researchers on poverty and social inequality in the United States.  Collectively, their work has had a significant impact on social policy.  An important emphasis of OPR faculty is city life and the urban poor, with studies that focus on crime and urban poverty, housing insecurity and eviction, low-income fathers , and the relationship between government institutions and the urban poor . OPR researchers have examined racial residential segregation in American cities and its consequences for poverty, academic achievement, and health among African Americans, the role of family structure, race, and social class in child outcomes, the influence of racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities on educational and health outcomes, racial differences in health and labor-market outcomes between U.S.-born and foreign-born individuals in the United States.