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.

Rachel Dunifon, Cornell University. Read the paper here.

John Cawley, Cornell University. Read the paper

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Co-sponsored by the Brookings Center on Children and Families.

Read the papers by Sheldon Danziger and by Rebecca Blank.

Presented by Professor Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago. Co-sponsored with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Read the paper by Steven Raphael.

Hosted as part of the University of Michigan's 2008 Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Speakers include Mary Pattillo, Sandra S. Smith, and David Harding. Event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R.