Previous Robert J. Lampman Memorial Lecturers

2007: Judith M. Gueron, Independent Scholar in Residence and President Emerita, MDRC
"Building Evidence about What Works: What It Takes and What It Yields"
View the video of this lecture (requires the latest Flash browser plug-in). The video was provided by the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Educational Sciences, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

2006: Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Does Inequality Really Affect Longevity?"

2004: Robert Moffitt, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University and an IRP affiliate.
"The Idea of a Negative Income Tax: Past, Present, and Future"

2002: Eugene Smolensky, Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, and a former director of IRP.
“Income Inequality: A Conversation with Bob Lampman.”

2001: Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"How Did Unemployment Get So Low in 2000? Could It Happen Again?"
An adaptation was published in Focus as “Why Were the Nineties So Good? Could it Happen Again?”

2000: Angus S. Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
"Poverty, Inequality, and Mortality."

1999: Edward M. Gramlich, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,1997–2005, and thereafter Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
“A Policy in Lampman’s Tradition: The Community Reinvestment Act”

1998: Sheldon H. Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a former director of IRP.
“In Pursuit of Robert J. Lampman’s “Modest Goal”: Antipoverty Policy after Welfare Reform”