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 …

Income Inequality: A Conversation with Bob Lampman Eugene Smolensky Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, and a former director of IRP.

How Did Unemployment Get So Low in 2000? Could It Happen Again? Robert M. Solow Institute Professor of Economics Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An adaptation was published in Focus 22:2, Summer 2002 as …

Poverty, Inequality, and Mortality Angus S. Deaton Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

A Policy in Lampman’s Tradition: The Community Reinvestment Act Edward M. Gramlich Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1997–2005, and thereafter Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at the University …

In Pursuit of Robert J. Lampman’s “Modest Goal”: Antipoverty Policy after Welfare Reform Sheldon H. Danziger Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a former director …