Neighborhoods vs. Schools Lawrence Katz Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, Harvard University Slide Presentation 

Good Jobs: The Increasing Importance of Who You Work for in Achieving Economic Success David Card Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the …

Hard Evidence on Soft Skills James J. Heckman Nobel Laureate and Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Slide Presentation (PDF file) 

Poverty and Poor Health: Can Health Care Reform Break the Link? Barbara L. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Public Affairs, and Population Health Sciences, and IRP Affiliate Presentation Slides (PDF file) 

From Income to Consumption: Understanding the Transmission of Inequality Richard Blundell David Ricardo Professor of Economics, University College London, and Research Director, ESRC Centre for Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies Presentation Slides (PDF file) 

The American Welfare State: Laggard or Leader?* Irwin Garfinkel Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Co-Director of the Columbia Population Research Center, Columbia University, and IRP Affiliate and Former IRP Director Presentation Slides …

What Does it Mean to be Poor in a Rich Society? Robert H. Haveman John Bascom Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Madison Presentation Slides (PDF file) 

Building Evidence about What Works: What It Takes and What It Yields Judith M. Gueron Independent Scholar in Residence and President Emerita, MDRC

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

The Idea of a Negative Income Tax: Past, Present, and Future Robert Moffitt Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University and an IRP affiliate. A summary of the lecture was published in Focus 23:2, Summer …