Past NPC Events - 2004
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Seminar: "Welfare Reform, Saving, and Vehicle Ownership: Do Asset Limits and Vehicle Exemptions Matter?” James X. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame and National Poverty Center Visiting Scholar.
Seminar: “Race, Space, and Job Accessibility: Evidence from a Plant Relocation.” October 5, 2004. Roberto M. Fernandez, William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.
Seminar: "American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare." Video: 1:00:58 
September 28, 2004. Jason DeParle of the New York Times. Remarks by U-M professors Sandra K. Danziger and Alford Young, Jr. Moderated by Professor Sheldon Danziger. http://www.jasondeparle.com
Conference: NPC Conference on Poverty & Health. July 20-21, 2004, Ann Arbor, MI.
Summer Workshop: Analyzing Poverty and Welfare Trends Using Census 2000. June 14 - 18, 2004, Ann Arbor, MI.
Summer Workshop: Poverty in America: Empirical Trends and Theoretical Explanations. June 14 - 18, 2004, Ann Arbor, MI.
Symposium: Qualitative Research on Urban Poverty. June 14, 2004. Elijah Anderson, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Read The Community Consequences of Welfare Reform. Christina Gibson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and Family Policy, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. Read High Hopes But Even Higher Expectations: The Retreat From Marriage Among Low-Income Couples.
Symposium: Immigration and Poverty: Research and Policy Issues. June 15, 2004. Cecilia Munoz, Vice President, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation, National Council of La Raza. James P. Smith, Senior Economist, Rand Corporation. Philip L. Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis. Read Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America.
Symposium: After Welfare Reform: Policy and Research Issues. June 16, 2004. Kristin S. Seefeldt, Research Investigator, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Read Michigan's Welfare System. Douglas J. Besharov, Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies, American Enterprise Institute and Professor of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. Research from the Welfare Reform Academy. Sheldon H. Danziger, National Poverty Center Co-Director; Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Director, Ford Foundation Program on Poverty and Public Policy; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies Center. Sheldon Danziger publications.
Seminar: The Impact of Medicare Coverage on Basic Clinical Services for Previously Uninsured Adults. April 8, 2004. John Ayanian and Michael McWilliams, Harvard Medical School.
Seminar: Color-Blind Affirmative Action. March 31, 2004. Glenn Loury, University Professor and Professor of Economics at Boston University. Read Color-Blind Affirmative Action.
Seminar: Work and Earnings of Low-Skilled Women: A Sobering Comparison of Survey Responses and Administrative Records. March 29, 2004. Geoffrey Wallace, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read the Haveman-Wallace paper. (pdf)
Seminar: The Effectiveness of the Massachusetts Workforce Development System. March 26, 2004. Steve Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Read "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Massachusetts Workforce Development System Using No-Shows as a Non-Experimental Comparison Group."
Seminar: Final Report on the Statewide Evaluation of CalWORKS. March 24, 2004. Jacob Klerman, Senior Economist, RAND. Read Why Did the Welfare Caseload Decline?
Seminar: Do Neighborhoods Matter for Disadvantaged Families? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment. March 12, 2004. Larry Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, Harvard University.
Read Youth Criminal Behavior in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.
Seminar: Seven Decades of Nonmarital Childbearing in the U.S. March 10, 2004. Robert Plotnick , Professor of Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Washington. Read Seven Decades of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States.
Seminar: Transforming (?) Public Housing in Chicago. March 8, 2004. Mary Pattillo, Associate Professor of Afroamerican Studies and Sociology, Northwestern University. Read "Negotiating Blackness, for Richer or for Poorer."
Seminar: Why Are People Uninsured?. January 28, 2004. Helen Levy, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and NPC Visiting Scholar. Read What do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance, and What Does That Say About Why They Are Uninsured?
Seminar: Qualitative Research to Unravel the Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Relationship. January 21, 2004. Mario Luis Small of Princeton University. Alford Young, Jr., of the University of Michigan. John Hartigan, Jr., from the University of Texas at Austin. Discussant: Ann Chih Lin of the University of Michigan.
