Robert Groves, Director, U.S. Census Bureau, and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan (on leave), "Government Statistics and Social Science Statistics: What Is Quality?" (May 2, 2011)
(Read the the IPR newsletter article and the announcement.)

Austan Goolsbee, Chief Economist, President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board; Member, Council of Economic Advisers; and Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics (on leave), Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, "The Uses (and Non-Uses) of Economic Analysis in Difficult Times" (April 26, 2010)
(Read the IPR newsletter article and the annoucement.)

Rebecca Blank, Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; former Dean, Ford School of Public Policy, and former Co-Director, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, “Why Does Inequality Matter, and What Should We Do About It?” (April 17, 2009)
(Hear the lecture.)

David Ellwood, Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University;
Ron Haskins, Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Senior Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation, “Ten Years After Welfare Reform: Who Was Right, What Have We Learned, and Where Do We Need to Go Next?” (April 23, 2007)
(Read the IPR newsletter article and see the video.)

Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women's Policy Research; Research Professor at The George Washington University, "The Earnings Gap and Women's Long-Term Economic Security" (March 29, 2006)
(Read the IPR newsletter article and Daily article.)

Robert Reich, University Professor and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, "America's Real Job Problem" (October 19, 2004)
(Hear the lecture or download the talk.)

Grover J. Whitehurst, Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, "Making Education Evidence-Based: Premises, Principles, Pragmatics, and Politics" (April 26, 2004)
(Read the lecture.)

John McKnight, Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication, Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research, Co-Director of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Northwestern University, "Regenerating Community: The Recovery of a Space for Citizens"  (May 29, 2003)
(Read the lecture.)

Jan Schakowsky, U.S. Representative, 9th District, Illinois, "Why Citizen Activism Matters: The View from Washington" (May 29, 2002)

Rebecca Blank, Council of Economic Advisers, Professor of Economics and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, "When Can Public Policymakers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services" (February 22, 1999)

John Porter, U.S. Representative 10th District, Illinois, Senior Member, House Appropriations Committee, Chair, House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee, "The New Social Security—True Retirement Security for All Americans" (May 8, 1998)

Paul Simon, Former U.S. Senator, Chair, The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University, "Public Policy and the American Labor Market"
(February 6, 1998)

Eleanor Chelimsky, Former Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation and Methodology, U.S. General Accounting Office, "From Incrementalism to Ideology and Back: Can Producers of Policy Information Adjust to the Full Spectrum of Political Climates?" (February 29, 1996)

David Ellwood, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, "From Social Science to Social Policy? The Fate of Intellectuals, Ideas, and Ideology in the Welfare Debate in the Mid-1990s" (January 11, 1996)

Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, "The Clinton Administration's Vision of Welfare Reform" (September 23, 1994)