Focus

The purpose of Focus is to provide coverage of poverty-related research, events, and issues, and to acquaint a large audience with the work of the Institute for Research on Poverty by means of short essays on selected pieces of research.

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Note: Focus articles published during the years 1976 - 1993 have been digitized and electronic copies are available below. (07/24/2007)

Volumes: 1-5 (1976-1982)   |   6-10 (1982-1987)   |   11-15 (1988-1994)   |   16-20 (1994-1999)   |   21-25 (2000-2008)

Vol. 26:1, Summer-Fall 2008

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• The new global labor market
  by Richard B. Freeman
• Improving individual success for community-college students
  by Susan Scrivener
• A primer on U.S. welfare reform
  by Robert Moffitt
• Rethinking the safety net: Gaps and instability in help for the working poor
  by Scott W. Allard
• A longitudinal perspective on income inequality in the United States and Europe
  by Markus Gangl

Vol. 25:2, Fall-Winter 2007-08

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Pathways to Self-Sufficiency

• Pathways to self-sufficiency
  by Carolyn Heinrich and John Karl Scholz
• Effects of welfare and antipoverty programs on participants’ children
  by Greg J. Duncan, Lisa Gennetian, and Pamela Morris
• Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children
  by David N. Figlio
• The employment prospects of ex-offenders
  by Steven Raphael
• The growing problem of disconnected single mothers
  by Rebecca Blank and Brian Kovak

Vol. 25:1, Spring-Summer 2007

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• Poverty policy and poverty research over four decades
  by Robert Haveman and Timothy Smeeding

Poverty research

• Fighting poverty revisited: What did researchers know 40 years ago? What do we know today?
  by Sheldon H. Danziger
• What have we learned about poverty and inequality? Evidence from cross-national analysis
  by Gary Burtless
• Parenting practices, teenage lifestyles, and academic achievement among African American children
  by Ronald Ferguson
• Hispanics at the age crossroads: Opportunities and risks
  by Marta Tienda
• On the legacy of Elliot Liebow and Carol Stack: Context-driven fieldwork and the need for continuous ethnography
  by Mitchell Duneier

Poverty policy

• Four decades of antipoverty policy: Past developments and future directions
  by Robert Moffitt
• Beyond the safety net
  by Douglas J. Besharov
• Taxation and poverty: 1960-2006
  by John Karl Scholz
• The institutional architecture of antipoverty policy in the United States: Looking back, looking ahead
  by Marcia K. Meyers
• Meeting children's needs when parents work
  by Jane Waldfogel

Vol. 24:3, Fall-Winter 2006

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• Does temporary agency employment offer a way out of poverty?
• Race and poverty: Divergent fortunes of America's children?
  by Daniel T. Lichter, Zhenchao Qian, and Martha L. Crowley
• Welfare reform as a failed political strategy: Evidence and explanations for the stability of public opinion
  by Joe Soss and Sanford F. Schram
• After welfare reform: You choose your child over the job
  by Lisa Dodson
• Observation in poverty research
  by Susan T. Gooden
• New perspectives on the social and economic contexts of HIV/AIDS infection

Vol. 24:2, Spring-Summer 2006

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• A plan to replace the welfare state
  by Charles Murray
• Two redistributive proposals-universal basic income and stakeholder grants
  by Erik Olin Wright
• Livelihood strategies and family networks of low-wage Wisconsin mothers
  by Jane Collins and Victoria Mayer
• Work, parenthood, and the idea of reciprocity in American social policy
  by Christopher Beem
• How does race influence judgments about parenting?
  by Lawrence M. Berger, Marla McDaniel, and Christina Paxson
• Can we improve job retention and advancement among low-income working parents?
  by Harry Holzer and Karin Martinson

Vol. 24:1, Fall 2005

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• Racial stigma and its consequences
  by Glenn C. Loury
• Neighborhood stigma and the perception of disorder
  by Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush
• Inequality in children's school readiness and public funding
  by Katherine Magnuson, Marcia Meyers, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel
• Grandmothers raising grandchildren: Family well-being and economic assistance
  by Hwa-Ok Park

Service and systems integration: Continuing the discussion

• The challenge of institutional "milieu" to cross-systems integration
  by Thomas Corbett, James Dimas, James Fong, and Jennifer L. Noyes
• Cross-systems innovations: The line-of-sight exercise, or getting from where you are to where you want to be
  by Jennifer L. Noyes and Thomas Corbett

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Vol. 23:3, Spring 2005

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• Inequality in America: What role for human capital policies?
• Economic inequality and educational attainment across a generation
  by Mary Campbell, Robert Haveman, Gary Sandefur, and Barbara Wolfe
• Equal opportunities for children: Social welfare expenditures in the English-speaking countries and Western Europe
  by Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy M. Smeeding
• Social policy in the upper Midwest: A new Web resource
• The CNSTAT workshop on experimental poverty measures, June 2004
  by John Iceland
• Adjusting the poverty measure for geographic variations: What difference would it make?
• Temporary downturn? Temporary staffing in the recession and the jobless recovery
  by Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore
• Fixed-term employment and its poverty implications: Evidence from Spain
  by Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Ricardo Serrano-Padial

Vol. 23:2, Summer 2004

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The negative income tax

• The idea of a negative income tax: Past, present, and future
  by Robert A. Moffitt
• Robert J. Lampman and the Negative Income Tax Experiment (an extract from an oral history)

The effects of welfare reform on participating families

• Economic success among TANF participants: How we measure it matters
  by Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
• Has welfare reform affected children's living arrangements?
  by Marianne P. Bitler, Jonah B. Gelbach, and Hilary W. Hoynes

Measurement and management for outcomes

• Performance management in federal employment and training programs
  by Carolyn J. Heinrich
• Service and systems integration: A collaborative project
  by Thomas J. Corbett and Jennifer L. Noyes
• The opportunities for service integration under current law
  by Mark Greenberg and Jennifer L. Noyes
• Why is human services integration so difficult to achieve?
  by Jodi Sandfort

The consequences of a criminal record for employment

• How willing are employers to hire ex-offenders?
  by Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll
• The mark of a criminal record
  by Devah Pager

Visiting Scholars, Spring 2004

• The spatial distribution of neighborhood employment: San Francisco, 1940-1970
  by Jacqueline Olvera
• Children's chronic illnesses and mothers' health and employment
  by Diana Romero

Vol. 23:1, Winter 2004

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• Temporary help employment and disadvantaged workers
  by Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, and Kenneth R. Troske
• Welfare policy choices in the states: Does the hard line follow the color line?
  by Joe Soss, Sanford F. Schram, Thomas P. Vartanian, and Erin O'Brien
• The skills of American workers in today's labor market
  by Michael J. Handel
• The children of New Hope, five years later
• Respect, support, and accountability: Lessons in delivering the New Hope Project offer
  by Julie Kerksick
• How do welfare sanctions work? New findings from Wisconsin and Illinois
  Wisconsin, by Chi-Fang Wu, Maria Cancian, and Daniel R. Meyer
  Illinois, by Bong Joo Lee, Kristen Shook Slack, and Dan A. Lewis
• Benefit-cost analysis in the evaluation of child welfare programs
  by E. Michael Foster and E. Wayne Holden
• A cost-benefit analysis of the Chicago Child-Parent Centers

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Vol. 22:3, Summer 2003

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Comparing welfare-to-work programs

• Income and program participation among early TANF recipients: The evidence from New Jersey, Washington, and Wisconsin
  by Maria Cancian, Marieka M. Klawitter, Daniel R. Meyer, Anu Rangarajan, Geoffrey Wallace, and Robert G. Wood
• Successful welfare-to-work programs: Were Riverside and Portland really that good?
  by Robert Walker, David Greenberg, Karl Ashworth, and Andreas Cebulla
• Single-parent families and the food safety net
  by Judi Bartfeld

Service and systems integration: Renewing the quest for the “Holy Grail” of public policy

• TANF families and the child protective system: Evidence from Illinois and Wisconsin
• Left behind: SSI in the era of welfare reform
  by Mary C. Daly and Richard V. Burkhauser
• New systems of social programs? Local implementation of health care, Food Stamp, and TANF programs
  by James Fossett, Thomas Gais, and Frank Thompson
• The service integration agenda: Political, conceptual, and methodological challenges
  by Thomas Corbett and Jennifer L. Noyes
• Building comprehensive human service systems
  by Mark Ragan

Vol. 22:2, Summer 2002

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• Why were the nineties so good? Could it happen again?
  by Robert M. Solow
• The right (soft) stuff: Qualitative methods and the study of welfare reform
  by Katherine S. Newman

Marriage and fatherhood

• Expectations about marriage among unmarried parents: New evidence from the Fragile Families Study
• The economic circumstances of fathers with children on W-2
  by Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
• The life circumstances of African American fathers with children on W-2: An ethnographic inquiry
  by David J. Pate, Jr.
• Children's living arrangements after divorce: How stable is joint physical custody?
• IRP Visiting Scholars, 2002
• Including the poor in the political community
  by Robert Asen

Evaluation of State TANF Programs: An IRP Conference, April 2002

• TANF programs in nine states: Incentives, assistance, and obligation
  by Thomas Kaplan
• TANF impact evaluation strategies in nine states
  by James P. Ziliak
• Perspectives of researchers and federal officials: A panel session

Income Volatility and the Implications for Food Assistance Programs: A Conference of IRP and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, May 2002

• Income volatility and the implications for food assistance programs
  by David M. Smallwood, Mark A. Prell, and Margaret S. Andrews
• The role of food stamps in stabilizing income and consumption
  by Craig Gundersen and James P. Ziliak
• Income volatility and household consumption: The impact of food assistance programs
  by Richard Blundell and Luigi Pistaferri
• Short recertification periods in the U.S. Food Stamp Program: Causes and consequences
  by Nader S. Kabbani and Parke E. Wilde
• Food Stamps and the elderly: Why is participation so low?
  by Steven J. Haider, Robert F. Schoeni, and Alison Jacknowitz
• Gateways into the Food Stamp Program
  by Aaron Yelowitz
• WIC eligibility and participation
  by Marianne Bitler, Janet Currie, and John Karl Scholz
• The correlates and consequences of welfare exit and entry: Evidence from the Three-City Study
  by Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder
• Measuring the well-being of the poor using income and consumption
  by Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

Vol. 22:1, Special Issue 2002

Note: This special, 144-page issue of Focus (the longest ever produced) brings together articles that probe aspects of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the primary cash welfare program under the 1996 welfare reform legislation, which expires and must be reauthorized in 2002. Because of the size of the issue, each section has been placed in a separate file.

Reauthorizing TANF

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• Introduction: Reauthorizing TANF

Devolution

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• The new face of welfare: From income transfers to social assistance?
  by Thomas Corbett
• Welfare then, welfare now: Expenditures in some midwestern states
  by Members of the WELPAN network
• Redefining a case in the postreform era: Reconciling caseload with workload
  by Rebecca Swartz
• Welfare reform and recession: Can the states handle both?
  by Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky
• Social policy and the macroeconomy: What drives welfare caseloads?
  by James P. Ziliak

Implementation

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• "Whatever we have been doing": Policy control over TANF
  by Thomas Kaplan
• Welfare reform: The institutional dimension
  by Lawrence M. Mead
• Reauthorization and the data infrastructure: Can we do better this time around?
  by Robert Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg

Work, earnings, and vulnerable populations

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• Welfare reform, employment, and advancement
  by V. Joseph Hotz, Charles H. Mullin, and John Karl Scholz
• Promoting self-sufficiency: What we know about sustaining employment and increasing income among welfare recipients and the working poor
  by Melissa Wavelet and Jacquie Anderson
• The role of temporary employment agencies in welfare to work: Part of the problem or part of the solution?
  by David H. Autor and Susan N. Houseman
• Employers and welfare recipients: What their interactions imply for public policy
  by Harry J. Holzer
• Barriers to employment and the "hard to serve": Implications for services, sanctions, and time limits
  by Sandra K. Danziger and Kristin S. Seefeldt
• Welfare reform and the vulnerability of mothers with intellectual disabilities (mild mental retardation)
  by Sharon Landesman Ramey and Bette Keltner

Family matters

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• Responding to changing family organization
  by Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
• Unwed parents: Myths, realities, and policymaking
  by Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan
• Assessing the influence of welfare reform on child welfare systems
  by Kristen Shook Slack
• Child care for low-income working families
  by Barbara Wolfe and Deborah Lowe Vandell
• Early childhood interventions: Knowledge, practice, and policy
  by Arthur J. Reynolds
• Strengthening families: An agenda for TANF reauthorization
  by Shawn Fremstad and Wendell Primus

Reshaping reform

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• Refreshing reform: Ideas from British welfare strategy
  by Robert Walker and Michael Wiseman
• Immigrants and welfare reauthorization
  by Shawn Fremstad
• Funding issues in TANF reauthorization
  by Zoë Neuberger, Sharon Parrott, and Wendell Primus

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Vol. 21:3, Spring 2001

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• Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition: Are we looking in the wrong direction?
  by Thomas Corbett
• Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition: A report of the National Research Council
• The private food assistance network
• Medical spending, health insurance, and the measurement of American poverty
  by Gary Burtless and Sarah Siegel
• IRP Visiting Scholar, 2001: Research Project
• Reconceptualizing "percent black": Explanations of violence among African American youth
  by Marino Bruce
• Racial disparities in imprisonment: Some basic information
  by Pamela E. Oliver
• Incarceration, unemployment, and inequality
  by Bruce Western
• New Book: Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility
• Income support for children in the United States
  by Daniel R. Meyer
• Cash for kids in four countries: Child benefits in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States
• United States poverty in a cross-national context (Article revised July 13, 2006)
  by Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, and Gary Burtless

Vol. 21:2, Fall 2000

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Understanding Poverty: IRP Conference, May 2000

• Understanding poverty: Progress and problems
  by Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman
• The level, trend, and composition of poverty
  by Gary Burtless and Timothy M. Smeeding
• The evolution of income support policy in recent decades
  by John Karl Scholz and Kara Levine
• Mobility, persistence, and the intergenerational determinants of children's success
  by Mary Corcoran
• Changes in family structure: Implications for poverty and related policy
  by Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed
• The rising tide lifts . . .
  by Richard Freeman
• Health policies for the nonelderly poor
  by John Mullahy and Barbara L. Wolfe
• Investing in the future: Reducing poverty through human capital investments
  by Lynn Karoly
• Welfare policy in transition: Redefining the social contract for poor citizen families with children
  by LaDonna Pavetti
• Housing discrimination and residential segregation as causes of poverty
  by John Yinger
• The memberships theory of poverty: The role of group affiliations in determining socioeconomic outcomes
  by Steven N. Durlauf

What's next? Some reflections on the poverty conference

• Poverty and race
  by Glenn C. Loury
• Poverty and children
  by Jane Waldfogel
• What's the Internet got to do with it? Housing discrimination in the 21st century
  by David R. Harris

Other articles

• Using measures of material hardship to assess well-being
  by Sondra G. Beverly
• IRP Minority Scholars, 2000: Research projects

Vol. 21:1, Spring 2000

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• Child support enforcement policy and low-income families
• Cohabitation: How the families of U.S. children are changing
  by Larry Bumpass and Hsien-Hen Lu

I. Fathers

• Fragile Families and Child Well-Being: A survey of new parents
  by Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan
• A failed relationship? Low-income families and the child support enforcement system
  by Maureen Waller and Robert Plotnick
• The ethnographic study for the W-2 Child Support Demonstration Evaluation: Some preliminary findings
  by David Pate and Earl S. Johnson
• The effects of Parents' Fair Share on the employment and earnings of low-income, noncustodial fathers
  by John M. Martinez and Cynthia Miller

II. Mothers and Children

• Dunning delinquent dads: Child support enforcement policy and never-married women
  by Richard B. Freeman and Jane Waldfogel
• The changing role of child support among never-married mothers
  by Judith Bartfeld and Daniel R. Meyer
• To what extent do children benefit from child support? New information from the National Survey of America's Families, 1997
  by Elaine Sorensen and Chava Zibman

III. Pieces of the Puzzle

• Child support reforms: Who has benefitted?
  by Elaine Sorensen and Ariel Halpern
• Reshaping child support strategies for welfare families: The W-2 Child Support Demonstration
• Child support as an income source for welfare recipients in Wisconsin: Where are the gaps?
  by Judith Bartfeld and Gary Sandefur
• Who gets custody?
  by Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
• Child support and child access: Experiences of divorced and nonmarital families
  by Judith A. Seltzer
• Setting child support orders: Historical approaches and ongoing struggles
  by Ingrid Rothe and Daniel R. Meyer
• Child support disregard and pass-through policies
  by Judith Cassetty, Maria Cancian, and Daniel R. Meyer
• The welfarization of family law: The case of child support
  by Tonya Brito

IV. International Reports: The European Experience with Child Support

• Child support policy regimes in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries: Similar issues, different approaches
  by Anne Corden and Daniel R. Meyer
• Child support: The British fiasco
  by Jonathan Bradshaw and Christine Skinner

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Vol. 20:3, Fall 1999

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• The case "against" social capital
  by Steven N. Durlauf
• "Social capital" and community governance
  by Samuel Bowles
• A policy in Lampman's tradition: The Community Reinvestment Act
  by Edward M. Gramlich
• In the midst of reform: Wisconsin in 1997
  by Michael Wiseman
• Food pantries and welfare reform: Estimating the effect
  by Peter Eisinger
• The employment, earnings, and income of less-skilled workers over the business cycle
  by Hilary Hoynes

International Reports

• When financial incentives encourage work: The Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project
  by Charles Michalopoulos, Philip K. Robins, David E. Card, and Gordon Berlin
• The welfare state and the labor market in Denmark
  by Lisbeth Pedersen

Vol. 20:2,  Spring 1999

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• Economic growth and poverty: A return to normalcy?
  by Robert Haveman and Jonathan Schwabish
• In pursuit of Robert J. Lampman's "modest goal": Antipoverty policy after welfare reform
  by Sheldon Danziger

Women in the labor market, Part 2: Welfare mothers

• How much more can welfare mothers work?
  by LaDonna Pavetti
• Will wages grow with experience for welfare mothers?
  by Mary Corcoran and Susanna Loeb
• Work, earnings, and well-being after welfare: What do we know?
  by Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan, Daniel Meyer, and Barbara Wolfe
• Will employers hire welfare recipients?
  by Harry J. Holzer
• Barriers to work among welfare recipients
  by Sandra Danziger, Mary Corcoran, Sheldon Danziger, Coleen Heflin, Ariel Kalil, Judith Levine,
  Daniel Rosen, Kristin Seefeldt, Kristine Siefert, and Richard Tolman
• Examining care after welfare ends
  by Stacey J. Oliker
• Credit cards and the poor
  by Edward J. Bird, Paul A. Hagstrom, and Robert Wild
• New Hope and W-2: Common challenges, different responses
  by Thomas Kaplan and Ingrid Rothe
• The New Hope Project: Two-year results of the MDRC evaluation
• Poverty: Improving the Measure after Thirty Years (a conference)
  by Thomas Corbett
• IRP Minority Scholars, 1999: Research projects

Vol. 20:1, Winter 1998-1999

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Women in the labor market, Part 1

• Women's economic well-being, 1970-1995: Indicators and trends
  by Francine D. Blau
• Differences between men and women in the low-wage labor market
  by Jane Waldfogel and Susan Mayer
• Earnings of husbands and wives in two-earner families
  by Anne E. Winkler
• Explaining the racial gap in labor force participation among women household heads
  by Irene Browne
• Immigrant women in the United States labor force
  by Georges Vernez
• The "family gap" and maternity leave in the United States and Great Britain
  by Jane Waldfogel
• Labor pains: The effect of the Family and Medical Leave Act on the return to paid work after childbirth
  by Katherin E. Ross
• Labor market dynamics and women's part-time work in the United States
  by Rebecca M. Blank
• International report. Part-time work by women in OECD countries: A sociological perspective

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Vol. 19:3, Summer/Fall 1998

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Perspectives on the labor market

• Can the labor market absorb three million welfare recipients?
  by Gary Burtless
• Inequality and poverty in the United States: The twentieth-century record
  by Robert D. Plotnick, Eugene Smolensky, Eirik Evenhouse, and Siobhan Reilly
• Cross-national income inequality: How great is it and what can we learn from it?
  by Timothy M. Smeeding and Peter Gottschalk
• Family income mobility: How much is there and has it changed?
  by Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger

Families under TANF

• Fathers under fire: The revolution in child support enforcement
  by Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Daniel Meyer, and Judith Seltzer
• What welfare recipients and the fathers of their children are saying about welfare reform
• A three-year survey of Milwaukee families and the Wisconsin Works welfare program

International reports: U.S. welfare policies in Europe

• The Americanization of British welfare: A case study of policy transfer
  by Robert Walker
• Will Wisconsin Works (W-2) fit into the Dutch "poldermodel"?
  by Dick Vink
• New faculty affiliates of IRP

Vol. 19:2, Spring 1998

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Revising the poverty measure

• Improving the measurement of American poverty
• Poverty thresholds and poverty guidelines
• Definitional issues in establishing a new poverty measure
• The CEX, CPS, and SIPP surveys
• Research in federal agencies related to the measurement of income and poverty
• Putting the experimental poverty measure into practice
  by Kathleen Short, Martina Shea, David Johnson, and Thesia I. Garner
• Working around the official poverty measure
  by Thomas Corbett
• Measuring the cost of medical care
• Incorporating health care needs into a measure of poverty: An exploratory proposal
  by Barbara Wolfe
• Estimating the value and the cost of housing
• Geographic differences in the cost of living
• What is it to be poor? Definitions of economic poverty
• Toward a better poverty measure
  by Peter Saunders
• Subjective assessments of economic well-being: Cognitive research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Setting American standards of poverty: A look back
  by Gordon M. Fisher
• Better tools for poverty measurement: A look ahead

International report

• Welfare reform and labor supply behavior: The New Zealand example
  by Tim Maloney
• The IRP evaluation of the Wisconsin Works Child Support Waiver Demonstration

Vol. 19:1, Summer/Fall 1997

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• Investing in young children
• The state of early childhood intervention: Effectiveness, myths and realities, new directions
  by Arthur J. Reynolds, Emily Mann, Wendy Miedel, and Paul Smokowski

Note: A RAND report that discusses a number of programs reviewed in Focus 19.1 was published in April 1998 and is posted on the RAND World Wide Web site. "Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions," by Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan S. Everingham, Jill Houbé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, and James Chies, is available as MR-898-TCWF on the web at "http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR898/".

Cognition and Educational Achievement

• Early intervention, cognition, and school achievement: Findings from two generations of model programs
• School achievement, early intervention, and special education: New evidence from the Chicago Longitudinal Study
  by Arthur J. Reynolds with Barbara Wolfe
• Does Head Start help Hispanic children?
  by Janet Currie and Duncan Thomas
• Early predictors of school adjustment among low-income urban children
  by Lee Shumow, Deborah Lowe Vandell, and Jill Posner

Social Behavior and Work

• Two-generation programs: A roadmap to national evaluations
• The predictors of youth unemployment
  by Avshalom Caspi, Bradley R. Entner Wright, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva
• Do intervention programs for young children reduce delinquency and crime?

Notes: The final report of the evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP), by Abt Associates Inc. has now been issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). It is located on the ACF web site at http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/rde/ccdp_inf.htm

The final report of the New Chance Observational Study, a study of parenting behavior carried out by Child Trends for Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, was published by MDRC in April 1998: M. J. Zaslow and C. A. Eldred, eds., Parenting Behavior in a Sample of Young Mothers in Poverty: Results of the New Chance Observational Study. The Executive Summary appears on the MDRC World Wide Web site (address http://www.mdrc.org/).

Health and Disability

• It worked in Elmira, but will it work in Memphis? The long-term effects of nurse home visiting on mothers' lives and children's well-being
  by David L. Olds, Harriet Kitzman, Charles R. Henderson, John Eckenrode, and Robert Cole
• The cost of caring: Childhood disability and poor families
  by Marcia K. Meyers, Anna Lukemeyer, and Timothy M. Smeeding
• Working conditions faced by poor families and the care of children
  by S. Jody Heymann and Alison Earle

Measuring Children's Well-Being

• Assessing the long-term effects of foster care: An elusive mission
• International Report: International project on indicators of children's well-being
  by Asher Ben-Arieh
• The Project on State-Level Child Outcomes
  by Suzanne Miller Le Menestrel

Reports from the Study of Alameda County Residents

• The dynamics of homelessness: A longitudinal study
  by Yin-Ling Irene Wong and Irving Piliavin
• Pathways off the streets: Homeless people and their use of resources
  by Bradley R. Entner Wright

Brief Reports

• The Avance strategy; The Profile and Synthesis Project; The Fast Track Program; Psychosocial interventions for children with chronic health conditions; Children with disabilities and the SSI program; Indicators of Children's Well-Being (new book)

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Vol. 18:3, Spring 1997

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• Evaluating comprehensive state welfare reforms: An overview
  by Thomas Kaplan
• The next generation of welfare reforms: The challenge to evaluation
  by Thomas Corbett
• A pre-post design for state-based evaluation of national welfare reform
  by Robert Haveman
• A Survey of Program Dynamics for assessing welfare reform
  by Daniel H. Weinberg
• Outcomes of interest, evaluation constituencies, and the necessary trade-offs
  by Maria Cancian and Barbara Wolfe
• Indicators of child well-being: An update
• Controlled experiments in evaluating the new welfare reforms
  by Glen G. Cain
• Interstate comparison of welfare reform programs
  by Irving Piliavin and Mark Courtney
• Toward a basic impact evaluation of Wisconsin Works
  by Thomas Kaplan and Daniel R. Meyer
• The actors, decisions, and complexities of welfare reform: The W-2 example
  by Elisabeth Boehnen
• Process evaluation for state welfare reforms
  by Karen C. Holden and Arthur Reynolds
• A management information system for Wisconsin Works
  by Michael Wiseman
• Designs for evaluating devolution
  by Burt S. Barnow and Robert A. Moffitt
• The Midwest Welfare Peer Assistance Network (WELPAN): A model
  by Elisabeth Boehnen, Thomas Corbett, and Theodora Ooms
• International Report: The equity implications of the National Health Service reforms in the United Kingdom
  by Carol Propper
• A tribute to Robert Lampman

Vol. 18:2, Fall/Winter 1996-1997

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• Immigration and social policy: New interest in an old issue
  by Thomas J. Espenshade, Michael Fix, Wendy Zimmerman, and Thomas Corbett
• Legal immigrants and welfare: Some definitions
• Immigration provisions in the new welfare law
  by Wendell Primus
• Surveying immigrant communities
  by Georges Vernez, Kevin F. McCarthy, and Julie DaVanzo
• Immigration and the changing geography of poverty
  by William H. Frey
• Immigration and labor market outcomes for native workers
  by Franklin D. Wilson and Gerald Jaynes
• Forging mobility in a low-wage environment: Mexican immigrants in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood
  by Marta Tienda and Rebecca Raijman
• Public assistance use by immigrants: What can the U.S. Census tell us?
  by Frank D. Bean, Jennifer W. W. Van Hook, and Jennifer E. Glick
• Immigrants and welfare: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
  by George J. Borjas and Lynette Hilton
• Elderly immigrants on welfare
  by Wei-Yin Hu
• Medicaid use by children of immigrants
  by Janet Currie
• The use of food assistance programs by elderly Hispanic immigrants in Massachusetts
  by Luis M. Falcón, Odilia Bermudez, and Katherine Tucker
• Food insecurity and hunger: Poverty policy issues for the 1990s and beyond
  by Christine M. Olson
• Welfare reform and the poor children of working parents
  by Daniel T. Lichter and Erica L. Gardner

Vol. 18:1, Special Issue 1996

National issues

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• Research challenges created by the new federalism
  by Barbara B. Blum
• The new federalism: Monitoring consequences
  by Thomas Corbett
• Monitoring the effects of the new federalism: A conference
• A roadmap: Potential strategies
• A table of projects
• Evaluating the new state welfare reforms
  by Robert A. Moffitt
• From welfare to work: Problems and pitfalls
  by Robert Haveman
• State responses to block grants: Will the social safety net survive?
  by Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

State issues

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• Informing the welfare debate: A conversation with state officials
• Welfare waivers: Some salient trends
  by Elisabeth Boehnen and Thomas Corbett
• Extending assistance to intact families: State experiments with the 100-hour rule
  by Matthew Birnbaum and Michael Wiseman
• State-level indicators of children's well-being
• What a difference a state makes: Tracking the well-being of young children and families
  by Jane Knitzer and J. Lawrence Aber
• Confronting the new politics of child and family policy in the United States

Welfare reform in Wisconsin: A case study

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• Understanding Wisconsin Works (W-2)
  by Thomas Corbett
• Welfare reform under construction: Wisconsin Works (W-2)
  by Karen Fox Folk
• A profile of Wisconsin welfare recipients: Baseline data
  by Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
• The W-2 health care plan
  by Thomas Kaplan
• The W-2 child care plan
  by Karen Fox Folk
• W-2 and child welfare
  by Mark Courtney
• Implementing W-2: A few questions
  by Robert H. Haveman
• Research and evaluation issues relating to W-2
  by John F. Witte and Thomas Corbett
• Work-Not-Welfare: Time limits in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
  by Elisabeth Boehnen and Thomas Corbett
• The New Hope Project

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Vol. 17:3, Spring 1996

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• A Medicaid primer
  by Barbara Wolfe
• Medicaid politics and group differences
  by Karl Kronebusch
• The effects of state restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortions
  by Phillip B. Levine, Amy B. Trainor, and David J. Zimmerman
• Expanding eligibility for Medicaid: What does it accomplish?
• "Time-limited benefits in France"
  by Sylvie Morel: A comment, by Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn
• Reform of state Medicaid programs
• Child support and children's well-being
  by Judith A. Selzer and Daniel R. Meyer
• Developing a child support assurance program: New York and Minnesota
• Kinship foster care and children's welfare: The California experience
  by Mark E. Courtney
• Poverty and social policy in unified Germany
  by Walter Hanesch

Vol. 17:2, Fall/Winter 1995

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• The myths of dependence and self-sufficiency: Women, welfare and low-wage work
  by Kathryn J. Edin
• Welfare that works: The working lives of AFDC recipients
• What happens to single mothers after AFDC?
  by Peter Brandon
• Unintended effects: Employment and training programs and the welfare caseload
  by Robert A. Moffitt
• Time-limited benefits in France
  by Sylvie Morel
• The Bell Curve: A perspective from economics
  by Arthur Goldberger and Charles F. Manski
• The Bell Curve: A perspective from sociology
  by Robert Hauser and Wendy Y. Carter
• Measuring and comparing well-being from one country to another
  by Liz Uhr
• Welfare, work, and vulnerability: IRP agenda for 1995-1996

Vol. 17:1, Summer 1995

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• National welfare initiatives: IRP spring forum
• Measuring poverty: A new approach
  
  • Assessments of the panel report
• Welfare reform in the 104th Congress: Goals, options, and tradeoffs
  
  • A context for the congressional forum series
  • Forum I: Welfare block grants
  • Forum II: Patterns, causes, and consequences of out-of-wedlock childbearing
  • Forum III: Strategies for self-sufficiency
  • Related references

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Vol. 16:3, Spring 1995

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• Indicators of children's well-being: A conference
• Background papers prepared for child indicators conference
• Back to the future: Improving child indicators by remembering their origins
  by Nicholas Zill
• Conference on indicators of children's well-being:
• Origins and prospects
  by Thomas Corbett
• New developments in federal statistics on children and family
  by William P. O'Hare
• Accounting for the recent increases in low birth weight among African Americans
  by Melissa Partin and Alberto Palloni
• Winter research workshop: Problems of the Low-Income Population

Vol. 16:2, Winter 1994/1995

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• The Clinton welfare reform plan: Will it end poverty as we know it?
  by Robert H. Haveman and John Karl Scholz
• Changing the culture of welfare
  by Thomas Corbett
• Replacing welfare with work: The case for an employment maintenance model
  by David R. Riemer
• Welfare reform: Does it presuppose reform of the health care system?
  by Barbara L. Wolfe
• What happened to General Assistance recipients in Michigan?
  by Sandra Danziger and Sherrie A. Kossoudji
• Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change
• The impact of single parenthood on children
• The Homeless

Vol. 16:1, Fall 1994

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• An evolving child support system
  by Daniel R. Meyer, Irwin Garfinkel, Judi Bartfeld, and Pat Brown
• When one demonstration site is not enough
  by David Greenberg, Robert Meyer, and Michael Wiseman
• Grants awarded
• Investing in children
• Recent discussion papers
• Examining the condition of children
• Recent IRP reprints

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Vol. 15:3, 1994

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• Tax policy and the working poor: The Earned Income Tax Credit
  by John Karl Scholz
• Microsimulation models for social welfare programs: An evaluation
  by Constance F. Citro and Eric A. Hanushek
• Notes on Institute researchers
• Sixth Luxembourg Income Study Workshop
• Small Grants workshop
• IRP contributions to ICPSR
• The connection between family structure and entitlements affecting poor young children
  by Peter Brandon
• Economists at Wisconsin: 1892-1992
• Auditing for discrimination
• What happens after foster care? A new investigation

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Vol. 15:2, 1993

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• How many elderly in the next generation?
  by Burton H. Singer and Kenneth G. Manton
• The future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation
  by Constance F. Citro and Graham Kalton
• IRP agenda for 1993-1995
• Summer research workshop: Problems of the Low-Income Population
• Trends over time in the educational attainments of single mothers
  by Peter Brandon

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Vol. 15:1, 1993

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• Child poverty and welfare reform: Progress or paralysis?
  by Thomas Corbett
• Welfare reform in the states: The Bush legacy
  by Michael Wiseman
• Poverty in the rural United States
  by Paul Dudenhefer

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Vol. 14:3, 1992/1993

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• Poverty and public policy: A conference
• Poverty policy priorities for President Clinton
• Income and higher education
  by Charles F. Manski
• New books by IRP researchers
• Changing the poverty measure: Pitfalls and potential gains
  by Robert Haveman

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Vol. 14:2, 1992

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• Paternity and public policy
  by Daniel R. Meyer
• Research opportunities
• Myths about custodial fathers
• IRP Executive Committee
• Changing the U.S. health care system: How difficult will it be?
  by Barbara L. Wolfe
• IRP summer research workshop: Problems of the Low-Income Population
• What we know about the effects of foster care

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Vol. 14:1, 1992

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• Measuring poverty
  by Patricia Ruggles
• Third annual IRP/ASPE conference on Evaluation
  • Evaluating comprehensive family service programs: Conference overview
  • The family service programs and their evaluations: Capsule descriptions
  • Reflections on the conference
• Corrected figures: Focus 13:1
• New book: Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs; Charles F. Manski and Irwin Garfinkel, editors
• Notes on Institute Researchers

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Vol. 13:3, 1991

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• What happens to youth after high school?
  by Robert M. Hauser
• 1991 Green Book
• The Wisconsin welfare magnet debate: What is an ordinary member of the tribe to do when the witch doctors disagree?
  by Thomas Corbett
• National Advisory Committee, 1991-1992

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Vol. 13:2, 1991

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• The underclass: Assessing what we have learned
  by William R. Prosser
• Small grants
• IRP agenda for 1991-1993: Education, families, and welfare
• Mentoring of at-risk students
  by Vilna Bashi
• IRP summer research workshop: Problems of the low-income population
• Poverty research seminars

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Vol. 13:1, 1991

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• State poverty rates for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the late 1980s
  by Jon D. Haveman, Sheldon Danziger, and Robert D. Plotnick
• Dimensions of vulnerability
• Discussion Papers
• Special Reports
• IRP Reprints
• The increasing role of the Earned Income Tax Credit

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Vol. 12:4, Fall 1990

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• Where we are in the evaluation of federal social welfare programs?
  by Charles Manski
• Are lotteries harmful?

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Vol. 12:3, Spring 1990

Special issue in honor of Robert J. Lampman

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Poverty

• Poverty and economic growth
  by Robert M. Solow
• The poverty problem: 1964 and 1989
  by James Tobin
• The impact of transfers on poverty
  by Robert D. Plotnick

Social Welfare Spending

• Social thought and poor children
  by Timothy M. Smeeding
• Evaluating transfers to the elderly
  by Marilyn Moon
• Reducing insecurity: The principal objective of income transfers?
  by Irwin Garfinkel
• Social welfare spending and its effects on growth: Another look at the Lampman analysis
  by W. Lee Hansen

Income Distribution

• Lampman on the history of egalitarian thought: An update
  by Eugene Smolensky
• Reflections on slowing economic growth and rising inequality
  by Peter Gottschalk
• Thoughts on access to health care
  by Burton Weisbrod
• Why is inequality growing?
  by Robinson G. Hollister, Jr.

Negative Income Tax

• Uses of the NIT framework
  by Eugene Steuerle
• Tax treatment of families in modern industrial countries: The role of the NIT
  by Joseph A. Pechman
• The NIT as income tax reform
  by Christopher Green

The Role of Universities in Social Science Research

• Helping at the margins
  by Barbara Newell
• The value of university-based policy research centers
  by Bryant Kearl
• Government and academia as complements
  by Edward Gramlich

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Vol. 12:2, 1989

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• Learnfare: The Wisconsin experience
  by Thomas Corbett, Jeannette Deloya, Wendy Manning, and Liz Uhr
• Learnfare: The state's perspective
  by Silvia R. Jackson
• Workshop announcements
• Birth weights and the geography of poverty
  by Katherine O'Regan and Michael Wiseman
• Why are child support collections declining?
• Small grants and sabbatical grants
• IRP-ASPE research workshop
• Corrected table: Focus 12:1

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Vol. 12:1, 1989

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• Special Issue: Defining and Measuring the Underclass Overview
  by Sheldon Danziger
• The origins of "dependency": Choices, confidence, or culture?
  by David T. Ellwood
• What is the underclass--And is it growing?
  by Christopher Jencks
• A contextual definition of the underclass
  by Martha Van Haitsma
• The origin of black female-headed families
  by Erol Ricketts
• American Indian reservations: The first underclass areas?
  by Gary D. Sandefur
• Funding opportunities for poverty research

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Vol. 11:4, 1988-89

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• The coming debate on postsecondary student aid policy
  by Charles F. Manski
• The effect of taxation on labor supply in industrialized countries: A conference
  by Robert Moffitt
• PC-SIPPTEST
• IRP agenda for 1989-1991
• The Family Support Act of 1988

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Vol. 11:3, 1988

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• Social and economic change since the Great Depression: Studies of census data, 1940-1980
  by Elizabeth Evanson
• Poverty rates by state in the mid-1980s: An update
  by Robert D. Plotnick and Sheldon Danziger
• The consequences of single parenthood for subsequent generations
  by Sara Mc Lanahan

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Vol. 11:2, 1988

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• Federal support for child care: Current policies and a proposed new system
  by Philip K. Robins
• New publications
  • The changed face of poverty: A call for new policies (Starting Even, by Robert Haveman)
  • The Status of Children in Wisconsin, by Sandra K. Danziger, Michael R. Sosin, and John F. Longres
  • Minorities and poverty (Divided Opportunities, edited by Gary D. Sandefur and Marta Tienda)
  • Policy at the state level (State Policy Choices, edited by Sheldon Danziger and John F. Witte)
  • The role of the nonprofit sector (The Nonprofit Economy, by Burton A. Weisbrod)

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Vol. 11:1, 1988

Special Issue: Welfare Reform and Poverty

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• Introduction
  by Sheldon Danziger
• Our poorest citizens: Children
  by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• The new war on poverty
  by Michael Novak
• The evolution of child support policy
  by Irwin Garfinkel
• State welfare employment initiatives: Lessons from the 1980s
  by Judith M. Gueron
• Nonwelfare approaches to helping the poor
  by Robert I. Lerman
• Consensus on redirection: Which direction?
  by Joel F. Handler

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Vol. 10:4, 1987

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• Do income maintenance programs break up marriages? A reevaluation of SIME-DIME
  by Glen G. Cain and Douglas A. Wissoker
• SIPP and SIPP ACCESS: Initial findings from a new data base
• Tracking the homeless

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Vol. 10:3, 1987

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• Poverty rates by state, 1979 and 1985: A research note
  by Christine M. Ross and Sheldon Danziger
• Financial aid for college students: Have the barriers to opportunity been lowered?
• The distributional implications of the Tax Reform Act of 1986
  by Daniel H. Weinberg
• The antipoverty significance of the Tax Reform Act of 1986
• Child Support Assurance System: An update

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Vol. 10:2, 1987

Special Conference Issue: Poverty and Social Policy -The Minority Experience

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• Conference summary
• The obligation to work and the availability of jobs: A dialogue between Lawrence M. Mead and William Julius Wilson
• Federal policy toward minorities: 1787-1980
  by Gary D. Sandefur
• The declining economic status of Puerto Ricans
• Family policy and minority groups: Unanswered questions
• Some reflections on public policy
  by Gary D. Sandefur
  (See also Divided Opportunities, B 43, in the title list of books.)

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Vol. 10:1, 1987

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• The Earned Income Tax Credit
  by Eugene Steuerle and Paul Wilson
• Food stamps and food need
  by Maurice MacDonald
• New book: Poverty policy and poverty research
  by Robert Haveman
• Teenaged childbearing and welfare policy

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Vol. 9:3, 1986

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• Workfare and welfare policy
  by Michael Wiseman
• The relative well-being of the elderly and children: Domestic and international comparisons
• New book: Single mothers and their children: A new American dilemma
• Measuring the well-being of older women: The transition from wife to widow

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Vol. 9:2, 1986

Special Issue: Twentieth Anniversary of the Institute

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• A brief history of the Institute for Research on Poverty
  by Elizabeth Evanson
• Poverty research and the social sciences
  by Robert Haveman
• Poverty research in international perspective
  by Alfred J. Kahn
• Poverty and poverty research, then and now
  by Nathan Glazer
• Have our measures of poverty become poorer?
  by Harold W. Watts
• National Advisory Committee, past and present
• Institute staff, 1966-1986
• Institute conferences
• Doctorates resulting from poverty-related research
• Books sponsored by IRP

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Vol. 9:1, 1986

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• Child Support Assurance: Wisconsin demonstration
  by Tom Corbett
• The changing economic circumstances of children: Families losing ground
• Private aid for the needy
• Medicaid: The cost of deficient information
• A comprehensive view of disability policy
• The socioeconomic status of Native Americans: A special policy problem

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Vol. 8:3, 1985

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• Are we Losing Ground?
• Immigration: Immigrants, work, and welfare
• Immigration: Issues and policies
• Immigration: Hispanics in the U.S. labor market
• OBRA effects: An update

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Vol. 8:2, 1985

Special Issue: Conference at Williamsburg

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• Antipoverty policy: Past and future
• Session 1: Transfers, market income, and the trend in poverty
• Session 2: Family background, family structure, and poverty
• Session 3: Social services, civil rights, and poverty
• Session 4: The labor market and poverty
• Session 5: Health, education, and poverty
• Session 6: The budgetary and social costs of antipoverty policy
• Session 7: Summing up and looking ahead
• (See also Fighting Poverty [B 42, in the title list of books], the monograph based on the conference.)

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Vol. 8:1, 1985

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• Measuring the effects of the Reagan welfare changes on the work effort and well-being of single parents
• Is a golden age in poverty policy right around the corner?
  by Eugene Smolensky
• Getting by: The Wisconsin Basic Needs Study
• Center for research and retrieval of data from the SIPP and ISDP

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Vol. 7:3, 1984

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• Employment programs for the poor: Government in the labor market
  by Elizabeth Evanson
• Can and should universities help government with policy-oriented research?
  by Robert Lampman
• The economics of discrimination: Part 2
  by Glen G. Cain

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Vol. 7:2, 1984

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• The economics of discrimination: Part 1
  by Glen G. Cain
• The dynamics of dependency: Family background, family structure, and poverty
• Spending for social welfare

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Vol. 7:1, 1984

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• Poverty in the United States: Where do we stand now?
• Retirement plans and actions: Some implications of the 1983 Social Security amendments
  by Richard V. Burkhauser

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Vol. 6:3, 1983

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• Attaining more complete coverage under Social Security: The 1983 amendments
  by Karen Holden
• Multiple benefits: Fitting the pieces together
• Change of directors: Interview with Eugene Smolensky
• Last resorts: Where do the needy turn?

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Vol. 6:2, 1983

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• The relative economic status of the aged
• Disability benefits and labor supply
• Valuing education and affording college: Two studies

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Vol. 6:1, 1982

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• Social Child Support: An antipoverty program for the eighties
• From person to person: Studies of nongovernmental transfers
• Valuing in-kind transfers

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Vol. 5:3, 1982

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• Supported Work: End of the era of social experiments
• Hispanic labor conference
• Schooling and success

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Vol. 5:2, 1981-82

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• Poverty in the United States: Where do we stand?
• The Reagan administration's budget cuts: Their impact on the poor
  by Sheldon Danziger and Robert Haveman

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Vol. 5:1, 1981

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• Are private schools better than public schools?: A critique of the Coleman Report
  by Michael Olneck
• Work effort, savings, and income distribution: What are the effects of income transfers?
• The dynamics of poverty
  by Elizabeth Evanson
• Participation as a measure of program success
  by Jennifer Warlick
• The Wisconsin Workshop on Child Support: Research and public policy

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Vol. 4:3, 1981

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• Black statistics: A look at the figures on social change
• A perspective on the juvenile justice system
• Health, economics, and health economics
• Providing nutrition effectively: A continuing challenge
  by Alice Clark
• American inequality in the past: Myth and reality

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Vol. 4:2, 1980

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• Moving into the mainstream: Policies for the disabled
  by Sheila Ryan
• On not reaching the rural poor: Urban bias in poverty policy
• The politics of displacement: White mayors, black mayors
• The "modern miracle" of microsimulation modeling
• Social Security and the changing roles of women: A conference

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Vol. 4:1, 1979

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• Work and welfare: New directions for reform
• Child support: The evaded obligation
  by Elizabeth Uhr
• Class structure and income determination
• Community treatment of the mentally ill: The Mendota experiment

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Vol. 3:3, 1979

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• The social scientist as expert witness
  by Jan Blakeslee
• Loans for black business
  by Roberta Kimmel
• The Community Action Program: A stimulus to black political leadership
  by Jan Blakeslee
• Due process under law: Where does the social service client stand?
  by Stephen Wittman

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Vol. 3:2, 1978-79

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• "White flight" to the suburbs: A demographic approach
  by Jan Blakeslee
• Sources of educational growth in America
  by Robert Mare
• Direct job creation: Where do we go from here?
• Why older Americans don't work
  by Richard Burkhauser and Roberta Kimmel

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Vol. 3:1, 1978

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• Moving up the job ladder: Is it harder for blacks?
  
• How much less will the poor work under income maintenance?  Questions revisited
  by Felicity Skidmore
• Long-term trends in American wealth inequality
  by Felicity Skidmore
• Black suicide: An epidemic?
  by Roberta Kimmel

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Vol. 2:3, 1978

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• The used car rip-off
  by Felicity Skidmore
• "And justice for all": Legal rights activities in the United States
  by Roberta Kimmel
• A new measure of economic status
• The inheritance of wealth: Like parent like child?
  by Paul Menchik

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Vol. 2:2, 1977

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• Food stamps: Who gets them and what do they accomplish?
• Major benefits possible from new accounting procedures in welfare
  by Larry Orr
• Making schools more efficient: An economic perspective
  by Roberta Kimmel

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Vol. 2:1, 1977

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• Publication of the New Jersey Experiment results
• Political language
  by Roberta Kimmel
• An update of the poverty picture plus a new look at relative burdens
  by Harold Watts and Felicity Skidmore

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Vol. 1:3, 1977

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• Public employment: A major unsolved problem of the seventies
• Evaluating the antipoverty effort so far: A conference and a book
• Who would benefit from electoral college reform?
• A study on the demographic impact of school desegregation
  by Karl Taeuber

Vol. 1:2, 1976

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• The rural income maintenance experiment
• Trends in economic inequality in the U.S. since World War II: A conference
• The new challenges to orthodox labor-market theory: How new? How challenging?
• Occupational and social mobility in the U.S.: Important new data source
• Government considers new ways to count the poor

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Vol. 1:1, 1976

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• Nature-nurture nonsense
• Why do blacks earn less?
• Urban politics: Race conflict and cooperation
• Progress against poverty: 1964-1974

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