Changing Poverty Conference
May 29–30, 2008, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Continuing the seminal book series on poverty policy and research which includes Fighting
Poverty (1986), Confronting Poverty (1994), and Understanding
Poverty (2001), IRP held a small working conference on May 29–30,
2008, to discuss a new set of commissioned papers that consider trends and
determinants of poverty and inequality, the evolution of poverty-related
policy, and the consequences of poverty for families and children.
Maria Cancian, affiliate and former director of IRP, will coedit the book
with Sheldon Danziger, director of the National Poverty Center, with financial
support from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The papers presented at the conference are available as IRP
Discussion Papers 1344-08 – 1356-08, also linked below.
Agenda
University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 29-30, 2008
Thursday, May 29 |
Poverty Levels and Trends in the US and the US in Comparative Perspective
Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey
Wallace, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Timothy
Smeeding, Syracuse University
DP 1344-08
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Economic Change and the Structure of Opportunity for Less-Skilled Workers
Rebecca
Blank, University of Michigan
Discussant: Kerwin Charles,
University of Chicago
DP 1345-08 |
Immigration and Poverty in the United States
Steven Raphael and Eugene
Smolensky, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant:
Cordelia Reimers, Hunter College-CUNY
DP 1347-08 |
Changes in Family Structure, Childbearing, and Employment: Implications
for the Level and Trend in Poverty
Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
and Deborah Reed, Public Policy Institute of California
Discussant:
Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania
DP 1346-08 |
Trends in Income Support
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, John Karl Scholz, and Benjamin
Cowan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant:
Robert Plotnick, University of Washington
DP 1350-08 |
Health Care for the Poor: For Whom, What Care, and Whose Responsibility?
Katherine Swartz, Harvard University
Discussant: Barbara
Wolfe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
DP 1354-08 |
Improving Educational Outcomes for
Poor Children
Brian A. Jacob, University of Michigan, and Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
Discussant: Helen Ladd, Duke University
DP 1352-08 |
Workforce Development as an Antipoverty
Strategy: Up, Down . . . and Back Up?
Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University
Discussant: Carolyn Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison
DP 1353-08 |
Friday, May 30 |
The Role of Family Policies in Anti-Poverty Policy
Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Discussant: Sanders
Korenman, Baruch College-CUNY
DP 1351-08 |
Enduring Influences of Childhood Poverty
Katherine Magnuson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal,
University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Duke University
DP 1348-08 |
Mobility in the U.S. and in Comparative
Perspective
Markus Jäntti, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Discussant: Steven Haider, Michigan State University
DP 1349-08 |
Poverty Politics and Policy
Mary Jo Bane, Harvard University
Discussant: Joseph Soss,
University of Minnesota
DP 1355-08 |
What Does it Mean to be Poor in a Rich Society?
Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant:
Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution
DP 1356-08 |
Rapporteur Session
Overall Themes and
Challenges for Poverty Research and Antipoverty Policies
Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University, and
Isabel Sawhill, Brookings Institution |
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