Reducing Poverty and Producing Prosperity in Indiana

#26
Thursday, January 11, 2024
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More than 12% of Indiana residents currently live under the poverty line, disproportionately affecting children and elderly adults. What programs reduce poverty, increase wealth for families, and strengthen the economy? What are some of the most cost-effective programs, and how are these programs funded?

Family Impact Seminars share recent evidence and useful policy strategies in a nonpartisan setting to allow open dialogue to find common ground on policy and programs that affect Hoosier families for the upcoming legislative session.

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Reducing Intergenerational Poverty

Greg Duncan, PhD
Distinguished Professor, School of Education,
Departments of Economics, Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Chair, National Academy of Science’s Committee of
Programs and Policies to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty

Greg Duncan is Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He spent the first 25 years of his career at the University of Michigan working on and ultimately directing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data collection project. Dr. Duncans recent work has focused on estimating the role of school-entry skills and behaviors on later school achievement and attainment and the effects of increasing income inequality on schools and children’s life chances. He is part of a team conducting the Baby’s First Years project – a random-assignment trial assessing impacts of income supplements on the cognitive and socioemotional development of infants born to poor mothers in four diverse U.S. communities. Dr. Duncan was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 and has recently chaired two NAS consensus panels on child poverty.

Building Evidence for Student Success

David Phillips, PhD
Director of Research, Research Professor of Economics
Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities
University of Notre Dame

David Phillips is a research faculty member and director of research for the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame. He oversees LEO’s collection of research projects and also directly conducts research, collaborating with service providers to measure the differences their services make in the lives of their clients and in the fight against poverty. For each project, Dr. Phillips leads the academic side of the partnership and helps design the research evaluation, implement it, and analyze the data. He received his BA in Economics and Mathematics from Butler University and his PhD in Economics from Georgetown University. Dr. Phillips specializes in research on housing, criminal justice, transportation, and low-wage labor markets.

Effects of SNAP Disbursement Schedules

Jillian Carr, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue University
Faculty Affiliate, Purdue University Research Center in Economics

Jillian Carr is an Associate Professor of Economics, at the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, at Purdue University, and research affiliate with the Purdue University Research Center in Economics. She received her BA in Economics and Mathematics from Rhodes College, and her PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University. Dr. Carr is currently focusing her research on modern US policy: poverty and crime. She has been exploring how nutritional assistance implementation impacts the lives of recipients and how the current U.S. legal system serves different groups. To ensure that her work reaches beyond academia, Dr. Carr has been actively reaching out to lawmakers and working with various news outlets to help the communities focus of her research.

2024 SEMINAR LEGISLATIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

2024 INDIANA CONSORTIUM OF FAMILY ORGANIZATIONS

The Indiana Family Impact Seminars provide objective, high-quality research on family issues to (a) build greater respect for and use of research in policy decisions; (b) encourage policymakers to examine policies and programs through the lens of family impacts; and (c) provide neutral, nonpartisan opportunities for legislators to engage in open dialogue for fostering relationships and fi­nding common ground.