Increasing rent prices have left many families struggling to make ends meet, fearing homelessness or displacement.
Education
Despite decades of traditional policy approaches to closing the achievement gap, disparities in educational attainment still exist by race and socioeconomic economic circumstances. The Price Center conducts research to develop, scale, and diffuse new models and processes to improve educational attainment across all grade levels, including postsecondary education.
Do hybrid firms out-provide traditional business structures? An examination of prosocial behavior in North Carolina firms
USC Price Center for Social Innovation
Year: 2018
Hybrid organizations are organizations that employ a for-profit model with a social mission. In recent years, there has been a push to create formal legal designations that protect the organization’s social mission while allowing it to access investment capital and … Continue reading
Morongo Basin Community Health Needs Assessment
Year: 2017
The USC Price Center for Social Innovation collaborated with the Morongo Basin Healthcare District to produce a community health needs assessment for the Morongo Basin. Read the full report here.
Credit for Low-Income Students and Access to Higher Education in Colombia: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Work Development
Year: 2016
This study evaluates the impact of a national-level subsidized loan program, ACCES (Access with Quality to Higher Education), on a number of higher education outcomes (i.e., increase in enrollment rates, decrease in dropout rates, and increase in academic performance) of … Continue reading