Office Hours look at longitudinal study, poverty

November 23rd 2010
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Professor Ken Goldstein talks with associate professor Pamela Herd about the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has been tracking a group of ten thousand high school graduates from 1957. The study looks to find information about what keeps us healthy, happy human beings.

Two public affairs professors, Pamela Herd and Timothy Smeeding, were recently featured in“Office Hours,” a half-hour weekly talk show produced at UW-Madison and shown on the Big Ten Network.

Sociologist Pamela Herd talks about the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which tracks 10,000 high school graduates from 1957 to gather information about what keeps people health and happy. She is now co-principal investigator of the study with sociologist Bob Hauser.

See Episode 7: A Timely Study

Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, discusses poverty in the 21st century.

See Episode 6: Poverty in the 21st Century

The show is produced by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s University Communications. The show’s host, La Follette School faculty affiliate Ken Goldstein, teaches the upper-level political science class Political Communication: Theory and Practice for which students  select guests, conduct research and write.

Big Ten Network is an internationally distributed television network that covers the Big Ten Conference for collegiate sports.

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