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)

Glenn Loury, University Professor and Professor of Economics at Boston University. Read Color-Blind Affirmative Action.

John Ayanian and Michael McWilliams, Harvard Medical School.

Kristin S. Seefeldt, Research Investigator, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Read Michigan's Welfare System. Douglas J. Besharov, Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies, American Enterprise Institute and Professor of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. Research from the Welfare Reform Academy. Sheldon H. Danziger, National Poverty Center Co-Director; Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R.

Cecilia Munoz, Vice President, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation, National Council of La Raza. James P. Smith, Senior Economist, Rand Corporation. Philip L. Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis. Read Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America.

Elijah Anderson, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Read The Community Consequences of Welfare Reform. Christina Gibson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and Family Policy, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University.

June 14- 18, 2004 Ann Arbor, MI Download the reading list for this workshop. This workshop was designed as an intense mini-graduate course on poverty, providing the background to persons who want to offer undergraduate courses or engage in poverty-related research but who did not receive substantive training about poverty research in their graduate work. The instructors for the workshop were University of Michigan

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.