IRP translates and disseminates poverty research through a variety of products prepared for a range of audiences.
Research Areas
- Children
- Children General
- Family & Partnering
- Parenting
- Place
- Child Poverty
- Economic Support
- Food & Nutrition
- Food Assistance
- Housing
- Housing Assistance
- Means-Tested Programs
- Homelessness
- Housing Market
- Place General
- Child Development & Well-Being
- Family & Partnering General
- Financial Security
- Inequality & Mobility
- Inequality & Mobility General
- Education & Training
- Employment
- Employment Opportunity
- Immigration
- Job Training
- K-12 Education
- Labor Market
- Postsecondary Education
- Social Insurance Programs
- Transition to Adulthood
- Child Support
- Child Support Policy Research
- Enforcement
- Orders & Payments
- Unemployment/Nonemployment
- WI Administrative Data Core
- Early Childhood Care & Education
- Low-Wage Work
- Food Insecurity
- Health
- Health General
- Health Care
- Poverty Measurement
- Racial/Ethnic Inequality
- State & Local Measures
- U.S. Poverty Measures
- Eviction & Foreclosure
- Justice System
- Policing
- Intergenerational Poverty
- Poverty Measurement General
- Economic Support General
- Education & Training General
- Social Determinants of Health
- Housing General
- Juvenile Justice
- Wealth
- Employment General
- Mental Health & Substance Abuse
- Child Maltreatment & Child Welfare System
- Related Social Policies
- Gender Inequality
- Neighborhood Effects
- Court System
- Incarcerated Parents
- Pass-Through & Disregard
- Family Structure
- Transition to Adulthood Network
- Family Income
- Custody & Placement
- Arrears & Related Policy
- Paternity Establishment
- Retirement
- Incarceration
- Food & Nutrition General
- Fines & Fees
- Prisoner Reentry
- CSDE
- Guidelines
- Justice System General
- Spatial Mismatch
- Complicated Families & Multiple-Partner Fertility
- CSPED
- Multiple-Partner Fertility
- Wisconsin Poverty Reports
- Health Policy
- Training
- Undergrad
- Obesity
- CSDE Report

Shared Placement: An Overview of Prevalence, Trends, Economic Implications, and Impacts on Child Well-Being
- Judi Bartfeld
- Report
- December 2011

Creating Effective Education and Workforce Policies for Metropolitan Labor Markets in the United States
- Harry J. Holzer
- Discussion Paper
- November 2011

American poverty and inequality: Key trends and future research directions
- Timothy Smeeding, Maria Cancian, John Karl Scholz, Barbara Wolfe, Robert Haveman, Jennifer Noyes, Katherine Magnuson, Carolyn Heinrich, Thomas Kaplan, Lawrence M. Berger, Marcia Carlson, J. Michael Collins, Julia Isaacs, Daniel R. Meyer, and James Walker
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- October 2011

Stepparents and half-siblings: Family complexity from a child’s perspective
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Steven T. Cook
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2011

Recent Developments in Antipoverty Policies in the United States
- James P. Ziliak
- Discussion Paper
- September 2011

Child Support and Subsequent Nonmarital Fertility
- Yeongmin Kim, Maria Cancian, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- July 2011

Jobs, skills, and policy for lower-wage workers
- Robert H. Haveman, Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Timothy M. Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- June 2011

An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States
- Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz
- Discussion Paper
- June 2011

Focus 28(1), Spring/Summer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2011

Both Hands Tied
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2011