Lessons about the Safety Net: Evidence from the Research Community
This presentation by UC Davis economist Marianne Bitler describes
the US social safety net and the great strides made in
understanding our reformulated safety net in the last decade,
driven by a variety of advances in availability of new data, new
sources of variation, and creative research designs.
Panelists to discuss the topic include Martin Graff, UC Davis
Center for Human Services; Frank Mecca, County Welfare Directors
Association of California; and Michele Stillwell-Parvensky,
Children’s Defense Fund–California.
This presentation was part of the UC Davis Poverty Research and
Policy Summit at UC Center Sacramento on April 22, 2016. For more
information about the event, visit http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/summit.
Marianne Bitler is a Professor in the Department of Economics at
the University of California, Davis; a Research Associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research; and a Research Fellow at
IZA. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1998. Her research focuses on the effects of the US
social safety net on poverty, income, human capital, and health;
economics of the family; economics of education; and health
economics.
