SIEPR’s spring Policy Forum brings together leading experts to examine the homelessness crisis. The forum will examine the roles played by housing prices and shortages, mental illness, drug addiction, the criminal justice system, and a fragile economic landscape. This in-person event, held on May 19, is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please use this link or contact the event organizer.
The IRP seeks up to 10 continuing Ph.D. and master’s degree students to attend its 2022–2023 Professional Development Training Series on Poverty and Economic Mobility Research. Applications are due on May 17.
The IRP also seeks up to four poverty scholars to visit IRP or any one of its U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC) partners to interact with resident faculty, present a poverty-related seminar of their choosing, and become acquainted with staff and resources. Applications are due on May 17.
The RSF Journal will be publishing an issue on reparations for Black Americans. The journal is soliciting empirically grounded papers from scholars in all social science disciplines and encourages contributions from across the ideological spectrum, especially on such topics as eligibility for reparations, long-term impacts of racial gaps on wealth, and potential unintended consequences.
A research center in the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is partly supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Elfenworks Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, Stanford Impact Labs, and the Urban Institute.
