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Scott Allard, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University. Home page. While in residence at the NPC, Professor Allard produced the Brookings Institution report, "Access to Social Services: The Changing Urban Geography of Poverty and Service Provision" (August 2004.)

Elizabeth O. Ananat
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics, Duke University

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat is Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics at Duke University. She was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She received a B.A. in political economy and mathematics at Williams College in 1999, a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Ford School at the University of Michigan in 2001, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Her research focuses on the intergenerational dynamics of poverty and inequality.

Luis Ayala, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid); Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies (Madrid). While at the National Poverty Center, Dr. Ayala completed a research report on the effects of welfare-to-work policies in Southern European countries. Additionally, Dr. Ayala undertook a second line of research related to welfare inequalities in contexts of decentralized Social Security.

Thomas Brock
Director, Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area, MDRC

John Cawley, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University.
John Cawley is an economist who studies health behaviors, in particular obesity. He collaborated on a study of whether obesity is a barrier to the transition from welfare to work among women in the WES. During his visit, he plans to explore projects regarding obesity and health.

Kerwin Charles, PhD
Emmett Dedmon Visiting Professor, the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago.

Thomas R. Chibucos, Ph.D.
Dr. Chibucos, a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), recently completed a decade as Director of BGSU’s School of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Ngina Chiteji, Ph.D.
Ngina Chiteji is an Associate Professor at Skidmore College. Her research examines financial systems, intergenerational connections, household wealth, and asset-ownership patterns.

Rachel Dunifon, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University.

Rachel Dunifon plans to continue her research on examining mothers' work conditions and child well-being. She will examine how characteristics of the low-wage labor market, such as nonstandard work schedules, long commutes or variable hours, influence family functioning and child well-being.

Steven Garasky, Ph.D.
Associate Director of the Center for Family Policy and Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University. His recent research focused on the impacts of current policy affecting low-income families; the persistent, long-term poverty faced by rural Latino immigrant families; and the ability of families to meet their food needs (food insecurity) on childhood obesity.

Steven J. Haider, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics, Michigan State University

Steven Haider is an Associate Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.  He received a B.A. in Economics and International Studies at Washington University in 1993.  Steven then received a M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in Economics, both from the University of Michigan.  His research focuses on labor economics, aging and demography.

Alison Jacknowitz , Ph.D.
Alison Jacknowitz is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy, at the School of Public Affairs, American University. Her research interests include issues related to poverty, income and food assistance programs, health outcomes, the elderly, and children and families. Alison Jacknowitz's home page.

Rukmalie Jayakody, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, and Demography; Research Associate, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University. Rukamlie Jayakody's homepage.

Dean Jolliffe, PhD
Economist, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Dean Jolliffe will use data from the Child Development Supplement of the PSID to examine the relationship between food assistance programs and the increase in child overweight and obesity.

Helen Levy, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured; Assistant Research Scientist, School of Public Health. Home
page.

Haiyong Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, East Carolina University. Haiyong Liu's homepage. During his visit, Liu conducted a study to analyze the effects of public health coverage and maternal employment on young children's health outcomes among single-mother families.

Robert Plotnick, Ph.D.

Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. Home page.

Lucie Schmidt , Ph.D.
Lucie Schmidt is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Williams College. Her research interests include the economics of gender and the family, public finance and labor economics, government transfer programs and the well-being of low-income families. Lucie Schmidt's home page.

Sanford Schram, PhD
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College.

Sanford Schram plans to focus on a new book from his research studying Florida for three years as a case study of new directions in welfare reform.

Guy Stevens, Ph.D.
Recently retired Senior Economist and former Chief of Quantitative Studies, International Division, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. While at the National Poverty Center, Dr. Stevens further developed three ideas related to his earlier work assessing the effect of the 1996 welfare reform on children's well-being.

James X. Sullivan Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame. James Sullivan's homepage. During his visit Sullivan undertook two projects. The first examined asset restrictions for eligibility under the AFDC/TANF program. The second, in collaboration with Professor Bruce Meyer of Northwestern University, examined changes in well-being over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption.

Celeste M. Watkins, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies, Northwestern University. Watkins' project, The Incomplete Revolution: Race, Reform, and Resistance in Welfare Offices , is an ethnographic analysis of the implementation of welfare reform on the front lines of service delivery.   At the National Poverty Center, Watkins built on her findings and completed the revisions of this manuscript for publication.