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.

Free and open to the public.OverviewFor 2003, our Poverty Research Grants program focused on funding research that will broaden our understanding of the linkages between poverty and health status. Learn more about the funded projects.

Free and open to the public. The Pakistani Students' Association at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor is hosting a day-long conference on Pakistan. Distinguished panelists will include experts on Pakistani politics and political economy. The panelists are S. Akbar Zaidi, an economist and expert on political economy of Pakistan; Sadia Saeed of Yale University; Amb.

Video: 1:00:58 Jason DeParle of the New York Times. Remarks by U-M professors Sandra K. Danziger and Alford Young, Jr. Moderated by Professor Sheldon Danziger. http://www.jasondeparle.com

Roberto M. Fernandez, William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Read the paper

James X. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame and National Poverty Center Visiting Scholar. Read the paper

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

Kathryn Edin, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Maria Kefalas, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Co-sponsored by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

Pamela Holcomb, The Urban Institute and John Martinez, MDRC.

David R. Harris, Cornell University