University of Wisconsin - Madison Institute for Research on Poverty

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Madison Institute for Research on Poverty

Under the title "Poverty and Public Policy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?" the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services held their third national conference to evaluate public policy efforts to address poverty and its concomitants.' The conference, which took place on May 28-...

Birth weights and the geography of poverty

Katherine O'Regan is a graduate student in the Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley. Michael Wiseman is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and at the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, and an affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A more detailed discussion of this subject can be found in O'Re...

Reshaping the Historical Record with a Comprehensive Measure of Poverty

Management meeting held in New York in October 1998. The authors wish to acknowledge support for this paper from the Annie E. Casey Foundation through a grant from the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin–Madison The authors thank Gary Burtless and Dan Weinberg for their comments on an earlier draft. All errors and opinions expressed in this paper are solely the authors’ r...

Brief Communications Stress Potentiates Early and Attenuates Late Stages of Visual Processing

Alexander J. Shackman,2,3* Jeffrey S. Maxwell,7* Brenton W. McMenamin,8,9 Lawrence L. Greischar,1,2 and Richard J. Davidson1,2,3,4,5,6 1Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and 2Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, 3Department of Psychiatry, Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and Clinics, and 4HealthEmotions Research Institute, University of Wiscons...