Past events

Robert Plotnick , Professor of Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Washington. Read Seven Decades of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States.

Mary Pattillo, Associate Professor of Afroamerican Studies and Sociology, Northwestern University. 

Helen Levy, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and NPC Visiting Scholar. Read What do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance, and What Does That Say About Why They Are Uninsured?

Mario Luis Small of Princeton University. Alford Young, Jr., of the University of Michigan. John Hartigan, Jr., from the University of Texas at Austin. Discussant: Ann Chih Lin of the University of Michigan.

Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University and Carla O'Connor, University of Michigan, speakers.

Michael Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Pamela Smock and Kristin Seefeldt, University of Michigan.

Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University. Read Professor Bartels' paper (.doc)

Marta Tienda, Princeton University with with comment from Patricia Gurin, University of Michigan.

Co-sponsored with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. More information about the workshop.

Angus Deaton, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Co-sponsored with the William Davidson Institute & the Department of Economics Labor Seminar. Read Professor Deaton's paper.

Daniel Weinberg, U.S. Bureau of the Census, with comments by Rebecca Blank and Sheldon Danziger View PowerPoint Presentation Read article from University Record

Dr. Namanga Ngongi served as the UN Secretary General’s Chief of Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo and the chief negotiator for the ceasefire that ended hostilities there in  July 2003.

Robin Wright, a five-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, is a global affairs correspondent for The Los Angeles Times. She has had extended tours of duty outside the United States, reporting from more than 130 countries. Ms. Wright has spent more than five years in the Middle East, two years in Europe, and seven years in Africa, as well as stints in Latin America and Asia.

Conference main page | Agenda and conference papers OverviewThis event - the National Poverty Center's inaugural research conference - brought together over 150 scholars, policy analysts, and practitioners who work on issues related to marriage, cohabitation, and family functioning among the low-income population.

Pamela Smock, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology. Senior Associate Research Scientist, ISR/Population Studies. Associate Director, Institute for Social Research. View PowerPoint Presentation. (5.5M)

SpeakersGreg Duncan, Northwestern University Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being Ron Haskins, The Brookings Institution The Politics of Welfare Reform Reauthorization Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin - Madison Welfare and Child Support: Lessons from the Child Support Demonstration Evaluation Ronald Mincy, Columbia University Fathers in Fragile FamiliesGreg Duncan Description of and results from the Next Generation Study PowerPoi

At our first annual Summer Workshop, participants learned how to use the latest Census Bureau datasets to better understand social and economic issues affecting low-income populations. The workshop was taught by Reynolds Farley, the Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research.

William H. Frey, Population Studies Center, U-M. Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution. View PowerPoint Presentation. (2.8M)

The full paper is available as PDF file. E. Scott Adler University of Colorado Abstract: What values and priorities motivate the design of political institutions? In this paper, we investigate committee reform in the U.S. House of Representatives to consider two questions: What drives structural change in Congress? What values and priorities decide the 'turf wars' that result when Congress assign jurisdictional control over issues to congressional committees?

The full paper is available as PDF file. Krishna Ladha New York University Abstract:

Abstract: Land use models and scenarios are important tools for evaluating the potential environmental and ecological impacts of land use policies and decisions. To be useful, such tools should both account for underlying social drivers of land use change and provide information on the physical landscape changes (i.e., land cover) brought about by land use change. This presentation summarizes work on how land use and land cover change are linked in the Upper Midwest, and various approaches to spatial modeling and simulation of these changes for the development of scenarios.

Download the associated policy report (pdf). Abstract In collaboration with the University of Michigan Business School's Office of Tax Policy Research, CLOSUP sponsored a research conference on November 22, 2002 entitled 'Privatization: Issues of State and Local Public Infrastructure.' The conference brought together leading scholars in public policy and economics from across the U.S.

Karen Mossberger Caroline Tolbert Kent State University Abstract: The forthcoming book, 'Beyond the Digital Divide' (Georgetown University Press), redefines the issue of the digital divide in broader terms. The authors argue that the problem has been too narrowly conceived in public debate, research, and programs as primarily an issue of access. In reality, there are multiple information technology divides ­ an access divide, a skill divide, an economic opportunity divide, and a democratic divide. Access without skill is insufficient.

Catherine Bertini, formerly executive director of the World Food Program, gave this inaugural lecture of the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence.

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Marina Whitman and David Featherman