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This workshop largely replicated last year's successful course. Read about the 2003 Summer Workshop, including participant comments. Participants were provided with training in the use of the 1% and 5% Public Use Micro-sample from Census 2000 and other Census Bureau datasets so that they can better understand social and economic issues affecting low-income populations and carry out their own analyses.

Overview Michigan's economy and the effects of its current tax structure and social policy are the focus of a 2004 Colloquium Series entitled Trends and Prospects in the Michigan Economy. Scheduled to begin in March, the series will host experts from at least four in-state universities: Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Eastern Michigan University.

Rebecca Blank interview with President Ford.

John Ayanian and Michael McWilliams, Harvard Medical School.

Glenn Loury, University Professor and Professor of Economics at Boston University. Read Color-Blind Affirmative Action.

Geoffrey Wallace, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read the Haveman-Wallace paper. (pdf)

Steve Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Read "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Massachusetts Workforce Development System Using No-Shows as a Non-Experimental Comparison Group."

Jacob Klerman, Senior Economist, RAND. Read Why Did the Welfare Caseload Decline?

Michigan's economy and the effects of its current tax structure and social policy are the focus of a 2004 Colloquium Series entitled Trends and Prospects in the Michigan Economy. Beginning in March, the series hosts experts from at least four in-state universities: Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Eastern Michigan University.

Larry Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Read Youth Criminal Behavior in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.

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?