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• Final Evaluation Findings Released on Demonstration Designed to Identify Effective Policies to Help Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children

  March 14, 2019

• Timothy Smeeding Q&A on National Academies U.S. child poverty reduction plan he helped devise

  March 7, 2019

• Two DreamUp Wisconsin Teams Advance in Alliance for the American Dream Competition

  February 6, 2019

• Tim Smeeding on extreme cold’s effects on low-income families: “If they’re forced not to work it can put a real crimp in their budgets”

  January 31, 2019

• IRP regrets the passing of Erik Olin Wright, distinguished sociologist whose work shed light on the forces that drive inequality and how societies can work to become more just and humane

  January 25, 2019

• “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

  January 22, 2019

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

  January 15, 2019

• New initiative to boost middle class in Dane County announces finalists

  December 13, 2018

• 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
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