IRP Visitors Program, 2006-2007

About the Visitors

Scott Allard, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University, will be visiting for the fall semester. Professor Allard’s forthcoming book is titled: “Mismatches and Unmet Needs: The New Geography of Welfare Policy.”

Daphne Greenwood, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and Director of the Center for Colorado Policy Studies, will be visiting for ’06-’07. Professor Greenwood’s primary research interests are in tax policy, public finance and the distribution of income and wealth.

Anat Gofen, who recently completed her Ph.D. at the School of Public Policy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be a visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at IRP for ’06-’07. Her primary research interests are in family and education policies and the role of “family capital.”

Patrizio Piraino, a doctoral student in the Department of Economics at the University of Siena, has extended his IRP visit for a second year to participate in a research project—Assessing Equity and Excellence in Public Higher Education—funded by the Mellon Foundation. IRP affiliates Bob Haveman, John Witte and Barbara Wolfe are the principal investigators.