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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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."

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)