Listing of Major IRP Conferences, 1966-2009

Intergenerational Mobility Within and Across Nations: The Promise of Cross-National Research
September 2009. Cosponsored by the European Commission, FP 6; the Russell Sage Foundation; and the PEW Charitable Trust, this conference was organized by Robert Erikson, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University; Markus Jäntti, Åbo Akademi University; and Timothy Smeeding, IRP Director, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy
September 2009. A working conference hosted by IRP in coordination with the Center for Research on Fathers, Children and Family Well-Being and the Columbia Population Research Center, at Columbia University. Tim Smeeding, Ron Mincy, and Irv Garfinkel are organizing the conference and will co-edit a planned conference volume. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is also providing financial support for this conference.

State Innovations in Policies Supporting Healthy Families Conference
July 2009. A working conference organized by IRP, with financial support from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A State of Agents? Third Party Governance and Implications for Human Services
July 2008. An IRP-organized conference with financial support from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the University of Arizona, School of Public Administration and Policy, Eller College of Management; the University of Washington, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs; and the University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning, and Development. A summary of selected conference findings can be found in Fast Focus No. 1-2008.

Changing Poverty Conference
May 2008. A working conference organized by IRP, with financial support from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This conference resulted in an edited volume, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, co-edited by Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, and available from the Russell Sage Foundation, September 2009.

Measuring the Role of Faith in Program Outcome
April 2008. A working conference organized by IRP, with support from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Bradley Foundation.

Pathways to Self-Sufficiency: Getting Ahead in an Era Beyond Welfare Reform
September 2007. A working conference organized by IRP and cosponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

IRP Special Sessions at Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) Fall Conference
November 2006.
Session 1: Poverty Research over Four Decades
Session 2: Poverty Policy over Four Decades

Multiple-Partner Fertility
2006. A working conference organized by IRP.

Will Standards-Based Reform in Education Help Close the Poverty Gap?
2006. A working conference cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. This conference resulted in an edited volume published by the Brookings Institution Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for "No Child Left Behind", edited by Adam Gamoran.

Making the Politics of Poverty and Inequality: How Public Policies Are Reshaping American Democracy
2005. An IRP-organized conference cosponsored with the Russell Sage Foundation.

Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Poverty and Welfare Reform: Current Challenges
2005. An IRP-organized working conference.

Conference on Welfare Research and Evaluation in the Upper Midwest
2005. An IRP-organized conference held concurrently with the quarterly meeting of WELPAN.

Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs
2002. Cosponsored with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Evaluations of State TANF Programs
2002. An IRP-organized conference with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Understanding Poverty: Progress and Problems
2000. Funded by the Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Additional funding provided by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

Implementation Evaluation Methods
1999. Cosponsored with the Research Forum on Children and Families at the National Center for Children in Poverty, with funding from the Joyce Foundation and the Mott Foundation.

Nonmarital Fertility
1999. With funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Poverty: Improving the Definition after Thirty Years
1999. Cosponsored with the UW-Madison LaFollette Institute of Public Affairs and the Brookings Institution, with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reforms
1996. Funded by the Joyce Foundation and the Mott Foundation.

Monitoring the Effects of the New Federalism on Children, Families, and Communities
1996. Cosponsored with the National Center for Children in Poverty, with funding from the Foundation for Child Development.

Indicators of Children's Well-Being
1994. Cosponsored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Child Trends, Inc., and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Poverty and Public Policy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?
1992. Cosponsored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Paternity Establishment: A Public Policy Conference
1992. Cosponsored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Evaluating Comprehensive Family Service Programs
1991. Cosponsored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Evaluation Design for Welfare and Training Programs
1990. Cosponsored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply in Industrialized Countries
1988. Sponsored with funds from the National Science Foundation.

Approaches to Analyzing Poverty: A Conference in Honor of Robert J. Lampman
1989. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Poverty and Social Policy: The Minority Experience
1986. Cosponsored with the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.

Income Transfer Policies and the Poor: A Cross-National Perspective
1984. Sponsored with funds from the Council for European Studies and the University of Wisconsin International Studies Program, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Conference Center.

Poverty and Policy: Retrospect and Prospects
1984. Cosponsored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Hispanics in the U.S. Economy
1982. Cosponsored with the National Commission on Employment Policy, with funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Wisconsin Workshop on Child Support: Research and Public Policy
1981. Cosponsored with the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services.

Cross-National Study of Disability Policy
1980. Cosponsored with the U.S. Social Security Administration and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Social Security System and the Changing Roles of Women
1980. Cosponsored with the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Universal vs. Income-Tested Welfare Programs
1979. Cosponsored with the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Microsimulation Modeling for Public Policy Analysis
1978. Cosponsored with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., with funds from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

The Treatment of Assets and Income from Assets in Income-Conditioned Programs
1977. Cosponsored with the Federal Council on Aging.

The Trend in Income Inequality in the United States
1976. Sponsored with funds from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Policies: Achievements, Failures, and Lessons
1974. Cosponsored with the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Welfare Reform: Issues and Objectives
1974. Sponsored with funds from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Psychological Factors in Poverty
1967. Cosponsored with the Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin.

Poverty Research, Communications, and the Public
1966. Cosponsored with the Russell Sage-University of Wisconsin School of Journalism Social Science Reporting Program.