Amid the nonstop news cycle throughout the year, IPR faculty research has provided a rigorous, evidence-based foundation for dialogue on pivotal policy issues. Many of IPR’s most-read 2018 articles reflect wider policy concerns, from bias in medicine and sexism, to crime and the future of work. They also reveal who our faculty experts are as leaders in their fields and why they do the work that they do.
The Changing Safety Net for Children

New research from economist and IPR Director Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach points to how safety net programs are “extremely effective at reducing poverty," but changes in government spending might harm the poorest children.

A new study by IPR's Gregory Miller, Edith Chen, and Robin Nusslock explores why a second-hand experience of violence affects some youth but not others.
Working Papers
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Partisanship? (WP-18-12)
by James Druckman and Matthew Levendusky

Do Private Politics Undermine Democratic Responsiveness? (WP-18-13)
by James Druckman and Julia Valdes

From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers' Rights (WP-18-14) by Daniel Galvin
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Upcoming Events
January 7: "The Social Structure of Police Misconduct" by Andrew Papachristos (IPR/Sociology)

January 14: "Predicting Teacher Effectiveness and Retention from Applicant Resumes: Using Theory to Steer Machine Learning" by Aaron Sojourner (U. Minnesota)

January 28: "Son Preference and Fertility in India" by Seema Jayachandran (IPR/Economics)

The full schedule of IPR's 2019 winter quarter events is now available online.
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