Poverty Research Now

In this podcast, David Figlio and Michal Kurlaender discuss how inequality before a child is even born can compound across a lifetime, and the difference high-quality schools can make for low-income children. In April, 2016, Figlio was a Center for Poverty Research Visiting Scholar to present the seminar “Culture and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital.” Figlio is the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern University and director of the Institute for Policy Research. He studies a wide range of education and health policy issues from school accountability and standards to welfare policy and policy design.

In this podcast, Peter Bergman and Cassandra M.D. Hart discuss how access to timely, actionable information about how students are performing in school can help parents keep their kids on track. In April, 2016, Bergman was a Center for Poverty Research Visiting Scholar to present the seminar “Education for All? Evidence from an Audit Study of Charter Schools.” Bergman is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Bergman’s research uses randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to find low-cost, scalable interventions that improve education outcomes.

This special podcast report describes a new study by center director Ann Stevens and graduate student affiliate Chloe East that examines how many workers at or near the minimum wage still rely on safety net programs to help their families get by.

In this podcast, Harry Holzer and Center Director Ann Stevens discuss how colleges have taken on the role of building the U.S. labor force. In March, 2015, Holzer visited the center as a Visiting Scholar to present the seminar “Building Labor Market Skills among Disadvantaged Americans.” Holzer is a professor of public policy at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He has previously served as a faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy. He is currently a Fellow at the American Institutes for Research, the Brookings Institution and at Harvard’s Program on Inequality and Social Policy. For more, visit http://poverty.ucdavis.edu. #povertyresearch

In this podcast, Kathleen Short and Center Director Ann Stevens discuss the Supplemental Poverty Measure and other attempts to measure poverty throughout the nation. In November, 2014, Short visited the center to present the seminar “The Supplemental Poverty Measure for 2013: Latest Estimates and Research.” Short is an economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, where from 1991 to 1999 she served as Chief of the Poverty and Health Statistics branch. Over her career at the Census Bureau, Short has worked primarily in the area of measuring economic well being. For more, visit http://poverty.ucdavis.edu. #povertyresearch

In this podcast, visiting scholar Stephanie Jones and Amanda Guyer, a UC Davis Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, discuss the long-term impacts of poverty and violence on social and emotional development in a conversation that ranges from classroom interventions to cross-disciplinary research into non-cognitive skills. Jones is the Marie and Max Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education Advancement at Harvard University’s School of Education. She is a Principal Investigator of a multi-year experimental evaluation of the school-based four-Rs Program, which is designed to integrate social and emotional learning with literacy development.

In this podcast, visiting scholar Ariel Kalil discusses her research on child development with UC Davis Professor of Economics and Center for Poverty Research Deputy Director Marianne Page. Ariel Kalil is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. She is also the Director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. For more, visit http://poverty.ucdavis.edu. #povertyresearch

In this podcast, visiting scholar Caroline Hoxby discusses her Expanding College Opportunities Project with UC Davis Professor of Economics Scott Carrell and Associate Professor of Education Michal Kurlaender, including the project’s interventions with college-bound, low-income, high-achieving students. Hoxby is one of the world’s leading scholars in the Economics of Education. She is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and Director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Carrell is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Economics of Education group, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. His research focuses on the effect of school inputs, peer effects and barriers to college. Kurlaender is the Davis site director of the University of California Educational Evaluation Center, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment at Columbia University. For more, visit http://poverty.ucdavis.edu. #povertyresearch