The 2008 De Jong Lecture in Social Demography

Was Welfare Reform a Success? How Minority Families are Faring

Lisa Gennetian is Senior Research Director, Policy Evaluation Project, in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Over the past eight years Dr. Gennetian has led evaluations of several large-scale experimental welfare and work programs including Minnesota's Family Investment Program and the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies. She is also directing research under the Next Generation Project, a collaboration that began in 1999 between MDRC and an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers, examining cross-cutting effects of welfare, work and income on children and families. Dr. Gennetian is currently co-managing the long-term evaluation of a housing mobility experiment, the Moving to Opportunity program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her research focuses on poverty, income security policies, and child care, and their influences on children's development.

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