We are pleased to welcome the 2011-12 recipients of our Small Grants for Emerging Poverty Research. The awardees will present their work highlighting their contributions to furthering our understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty.

Presentations include:

• Have Family Planning Programs Reduced Child Poverty?
  Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan
• The Effect of Public Insurance Eligibility for Childless Adults on their Labor Supply
  Thomas DeLeire, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with co-PI Lindsey Leininger
• Suburban Poverty and Immigrant Integration
  Roberto G. Gonzales, University of Chicago, with co-PI’s Jacob Lesniewski and Benjamin J. Roth
• Spillovers from Costly Credit
  Brian T. Melzer, Northwestern University
• Linked Lives and Linked Places: Using Data on Four Generations of Geographic Migration to Identify the Effects of Residential Segregation
  Patrick Sharkey, New York University

For more information, please contact the Center. Open to the public.