The Institute for Research on Poverty's Summer Research Workshop, celebrating it's 20th year this summer, has become a time-honored tradition in the poverty studies community since the meeting’s establishment in 1990.
The four-day workshop held at UW–Madison each June brings together as many as 90 junior and senior scholars from a variety of disciplines, primarily Economics and Sociology, to discuss research related to the low-income population.
Designed to build a community of research interest around topics related to the poor and their labor market connections, the workshop focuses on frontier statistical methods for the empirical study of these issues and seeks to mentor the next generation of poverty researchers.
In celebration of the workshop’s 20th anniversary, this year's event features five keynote talks that are free and open to the public. A full schedule is available here.
The fall 2010 issue of Focus, IRP’s broad-audience newsletter, will also feature articles based on the research workshop papers.