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