OverviewOn June 7, 2007 the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan will host a conference entitled The Impact of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations on the Lives of Low Income Families.
PurposeThe project features nine papers by leading researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners who are interested in better understanding the role that religion and religious organizations play in assisting low-income families and affecting their behavior. Such impacts can occur through a wide variety of mechanisms, including i
Overview Markus Jäntti will discuss new research on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status.
Markus Jäntti is currently a Professor of Economics at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.
His research interest include; income distribution, applied econometrics, and labor economics.
The paper can be found clicking here.
This event is sponsored by the National Poverty Center.
OverviewThe National Poverty Center (NPC) and the Ford Foundation, will sponsor a research conference to be held in Washington, DC, in the Fall of 2007.
Sponsors and OrganizersThis workshop was sponsored by the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
This event was coordinated by Bob Schoeni at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Rucker Johnson at University of California at Berkeley, and Ariel Kalil at the Harris School at the University of Chicago.
BackgroundThere is growing awareness of the impact of early childhood events on a wide range of long run outcomes.
