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“A safety net that has a frayed bottom makes people feel more financially vulnerable than they already are,” J. Michael Collins discusses the impact of the partial government shutdown on low-income Americans

Posted on January 22, 2019

Reports Released on Final Implementation Findings from Demonstration Designed to Identify Effective Policies to Help Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children

Posted on January 15, 2019

CONTACT: Maria Cancian (cancian@wisc.edu), Daniel R. Meyer (drmeyer1@wisc.edu), or Lisa Klein Vogel (lmklein@wisc.edu) MADISON — Final implementation findings from an ambitious national five-year demonstration designed to identify effective policies to help noncustodial parents support their …

New initiative to boost middle class in Dane County announces finalists

Posted on December 13, 2018

CONTACT: Hilary Shager, (608) 262-7990, hilary.shager@wisc.edu MADISON–UW–Madison has chosen three finalists for a national competition next month seeking ideas to expand and strengthen the middle class in Dane County and beyond. Last April, Schmidt Futures, …

AEIdeas blog cites David Autor and colleagues in suggesting that technology sector’s rising corporate concentration benefits the economy by boosting productivity, wages, and jobs

Posted on December 4, 2018

John Mullahy’s working paper proposes research strategies for estimating effects of a treatment or intervention when there are multiple outcomes of interest

Posted on December 4, 2018

Jennifer Doleac, David Figlio and colleagues’ working paper on students’ physiological response to high-stakes testing in context of the chronic stress of socioeconomic disadvantage

Posted on December 4, 2018

David Card and colleagues’ working paper find that the main differences of union impacts on wage inequality are between the public sector than private sector, not between women and men

Posted on December 4, 2018

Katherine Magnuson and David Pate each receive Wisconsin Partnership Program awards, to promote children’s social and emotional health, and improve health outcomes of communities affected by incarceration, respectively

Posted on November 20, 2018

Yang Sao Xiong named an inaugural UW Collaborative Center for Health Equity Research Fellow

Posted on November 20, 2018

UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research welcomes IRP among its affiliates who are transforming research into practical improvements in human health

Posted on November 20, 2018