What’s New
New Publications
Policy Brief: Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement
Policy Brief: The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial & Ethnic Disparities Persist
Policy Brief: The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood
Policy Brief: Homeownership: America's Dream?
Working Paper: How Much Can We Trust Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality? David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna College
Working Paper: Young Adults and Higher Education: Barriers and Breakthroughs to Success Thomas Brock, MDRC
Working Paper: Distributional Effects of Early Childhood Programs and Business Incentives and Their Implications for Policy Timothy J. Bartik, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
New Book: “Changing Poverty, Changing Policies” Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger (editors)
New Book: "Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking among Low-Income Households" Rebecca M. Blank and Michael S. Barr (editors)
New Events
Conference: Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Analytic Research Conference. Monday, September 27, 12:30 PM - 4 PM. 6080 Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street. Please RSVP
New Multimedia
Video/Transcript: Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson, Harvard University. Watch the video.
Listen to the audio.
Podcast: Changing Poverty by Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan. Weekly Podcast from the University of Michigan's News Service for the week of June 22, 2009.
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The NPC Visiting Scholars Program
Each year, the NPC hosts a small number of faculty, researchers, and policy analysts through our Visiting Scholar Program. We provide visiting scholars with office space, access to computers, and opportunities to collaborate with NPC affiliates and attend events on the University of Michigan campus.
