Research

The USC Price Center for Social Innovation brings an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to social innovation research. Through relevant, rigorous research, Price Center faculty explore a variety of topics that seek to inform and advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families.

Increasing rent prices have left many families struggling to make ends meet, fearing homelessness or displacement.

Education

Credit for Low-Income Students and Access to Higher Education in Colombia

This study evaluates the impact of a national-level subsidized loan program, ACCES (Access with Quality to Higher Education)

Explore Social Innovation Research

Social innovation uses a flexible, responsive approach built upon an iterative process of concurrent problem identification, design, implementation, and evaluation of pilot programs and other test strategies, with the ultimate goal of diffusing new practices into systems change.

Social innovation includes a wide range of new organizational structures, financial tools, and partnership models that are more effective, equitable, and sustainable than existing problem solving approaches.

Research Topics

The Price Center conducts substantive social innovation research on a variety of complex, persistence social problems. Explore our work below, which includes projects representing the full social innovation ecosystem, from problem identification to piloting, scaling, and diffusing new models and processes to create social change in the following areas.

Inequality

Housing Instability

Education

Criminal Justice