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• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  November 20, 2018

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

  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

  November 20, 2018

• Carolyn Heinrich and colleagues establish public health research-and-Policy hub for disadvantaged children, including children of immigrants and those exposed prenatally to opioids

  November 16, 2018

• IRP Extramural Small Grants 2019–2020 Call for Applications (Due: 1/13/2019)

  November 15, 2018

• IRP PhD Student Research Fellowship 2019–2020 Call for Applications (Due 2/1/2019)

  November 15, 2018

• 2019 Dissertation Proposal Workshop Call for Applications (Due 2/1/2019)

  November 15, 2018

• Scholars-In-Residence 2019–2020 Call for Applications (Due: 3/1/2019)

  November 15, 2018

• IRP/DreamUp Wisconsin hosting a session at the 2018 Madison Mayor’s Neighborhood Conference

  November 13, 2018

• IRP mourns the loss of Devah Pager, whose seminal research was credited with shaping a national program to help newly released prisoners get jobs

  November 12, 2018

• IRP Campus Researchers Presenting Their Research at APPAM Conference

  November 5, 2018

• IRP launches two new poverty studies initiatives with funding from The JPB Foundation

  November 2, 2018

• IRP regrets the passing of Mercile Lee, who oversaw the programs that enabled IRP to host poverty studies scholars of color for some 20 years

  November 1, 2018

• Urban Institute Webinar: Introducing the Annual Survey of Refugees Public Use Dataset, Urban Institute and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Wednesday, October 31

  October 29, 2018

• DreamUp Wisconsin selects 11 initial proposals for boosting the middle class in Dane County

  October 22, 2018

• Philip Jefferson interview on poverty, declining labor share, and the importance of racial diversity in economics

  October 11, 2018

• UW–Madison call for abstracts: Contemporary Social Problems Initiative to complement IRP DreamUp

  October 8, 2018

• Eric Grodsky says systemic poverty plays large role in Wisconsin’s persistently high achievement gap

  October 4, 2018

• New report finds large poverty disparities among persons of color compared to whites in Wisconsin and especially Milwaukee County

  September 27, 2018

• Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum, 2018: Rethinking Welfare: Promoting Opportunity and Independence – livestream

  September 18, 2018

• Census Bureau announces 2017 national poverty rate remained high at 12.3%, Tim Smeeding in NYT remarks, “The fruits of the recovery are not being spread around evenly.”

  September 13, 2018
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