IRP translates and disseminates poverty research through a variety of products prepared for a range of audiences.
Research Areas
- Arrears & Related Policy
- Child Poverty
- Child Support
- Children
- Economic Support
- Economic Support General
- Enforcement
- Orders & Payments
- Child Development & Well-Being
- Child Maltreatment & Child Welfare System
- Education & Training
- Eviction & Foreclosure
- Family & Partnering
- Family Structure
- Food & Nutrition
- Food Insecurity
- Health
- Homelessness
- Housing
- Inequality & Mobility
- Intergenerational Poverty
- K-12 Education
- Parenting
- Racial/Ethnic Inequality
- Social Determinants of Health
- Transition to Adulthood
- Early Childhood Care & Education
- Employment
- Family & Partnering General
- Inequality & Mobility General
- Labor Market
- Low-Wage Work
- Unemployment/Nonemployment
- WI Administrative Data Core
- Social Insurance Programs
- Housing Assistance
- Means-Tested Programs
- Place
- Place General
- Employment General
- Housing General
- Immigration
- Poverty Measurement
- Poverty Measurement General
- State & Local Measures
- U.S. Poverty Measures
- Wealth
- Financial Security
- Health Care
- Mental Health & Substance Abuse
- Court System
- Fines & Fees
- Incarceration
- Justice System
- Juvenile Justice
- Policing
- Children General
- Prisoner Reentry
- Child Support Policy Research
- Child Support Policy Research Agreement
- CSDE
- Food Assistance
- Related Social Policies
- Postsecondary Education
- Housing Market
- Health General
- Neighborhood Effects
- Family Income
- Job Training
- Gender Inequality
- Education & Training General
- Guidelines
- Custody & Placement
- Incarcerated Parents
- Justice System General
- Spatial Mismatch
- Food & Nutrition General
- Complicated Families & Multiple-Partner Fertility
- CSPED
- Multiple-Partner Fertility
- Wisconsin Poverty Reports
- Retirement
- Health Policy
- Training
- Undergrad
- Paternity Establishment
- Obesity
- Pass-Through & Disregard
- CSDE Report

The psychology of poverty
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2011

From income to consumption: Understanding the transmission of inequality
- Richard Blundell
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2011

Wisconsin Poverty Report: Were Antipoverty Policies Effective in 2009?
- Joanna Y. Marks, Julia B. Isaacs, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Katherine A. Thornton
- Report
- May 2011

Wisconsin Poverty Report: Methodology and Results for 2009
- Julia B. Isaacs, Joanna Y. Marks, Timothy M. Smeeding, Katherine A. Thornton
- Report
- May 2011

The Use of Civil Contempt and Criminal Nonsupport as Child Support Enforcement Tools: A Report on Local Perspectives and the Availability of Data
- Steven Cook and Jennifer L. Noyes
- Report
- May 2011

Wisconsin Poverty Report: Technical Appendix-2009
- Julia B. Isaacs, Joanna Y. Marks, Timothy M. Smeeding, Katherine A. Thornton
- Report
- May 2011

Unmarried parents in college: Pathways to success
- Sara Goldrick-Rab and Kia Sorensen
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2011

Unequal Pathways through American Universities
- Fabian T. Pfeffer and Sara Goldrick-Rab
- Discussion Paper
- March 2011

The Families Forward Program Final Evaluation Report
- Carolyn Heinrich, Brett Burkhardt, Hilary Shager, and Lara Rosen
- Report
- January 2011

Child Support in an Economic Downturn: Changes in Earnings, Child Support Orders, and Payments
- Chi-Fang Wu
- Report
- January 2011