IRP General Poverty Research Seminar Series
This seminar series is wide-ranging, featuring poverty studies scholars who represent a range of disciplines and whose work examines issues that lie at the heart of the poverty problem and efforts to address it.
Thursdays, 12:15-1:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science Building (unless otherwise noted)
September 29, 2011
The Effects of an Incentive-Based High School Intervention on College Outcomes
Kirabo Jackson, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Cosponsored with Wisconsin Center for Education Research Interdisciplinary Training Program
October 13, 2011
Socio-Econonomic Gradients in Children's Outcomes: A Cross-Country Study of the Association of Child Outcomes with Parental Education
Markus Jäntti, Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Swedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm
Cosponsored with the Center for Demography & Ecology
October 20, 2011
The Reversal of the Education Gender Gap and Marital Dissolution
Christine Schwartz, Associate Professor of Sociology, Affiliate of the CDE and IRP, University of Wisconsin–Madison
November 10, 2011
Labor Market, Geographic Mobility, and Other Effects of Housing Subsidies
Robert Haveman, John Bascom Emeritus Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, and an IRP Affiliate; Barbara Wolfe, Professor of Economics, Public Affairs, and Population Health Sciences, and an IRP Affiliate; Thomas Kaplan, Senior Scientist Emeritus, and an IRP Affiliate; and Deven Carlson, University of Wisconsin–Madison
December 1, 2011
Expanding Coverage to Uninsured Childless Adults: Effect on the Use of Health Care
Thomas DeLeire, Director of La Follette School of Public Affairs, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Population Health Sciences, and an IRP Affiliate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
December 15, 2011
Giving Low-Income Teenagers More HOPE: A New Randomized Trial of Early Commitment College Aid
Douglas Harris, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and an IRP Affiliate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
February 2, 2012 (Please note change in schedule)
Employment, Poverty, Inequality and Education, in the United States over the Early (and Middle) Stages of the Great Recession
Timothy Smeeding, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs, La Follette School of Public Affairs, and Director of IRP
March 29, 2012
Mortgage Default, Family Outcomes, and Public Policy
J. Michael Collins, Faculty Director, Center for Financial Security, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science, and an IRP Affiliate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Cosponsored by the Center for Financial Security
(Date changed 2/24/2012)
May 10, 2012
The Elephant in the Room: The Role of Poverty in Child Maltreatment
Kristen Shook Slack, Director and Professor of the School of Social Work and an IRP Affiliate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
May 17, 2012
Family Income and Education as Predictors of Children's School Readiness Scores
Julia Isaacs, Child and Family Policy Fellow, The Brookings Institution and IRP Visiting Scholar and Affiliate, University of Wisconsin–Madison