Four decades of family policy, counseling, research

Poverty policy and poverty research over four decades

Robert Haveman, who organized the APPAM session on poverty research, is professor emeritus of economics and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an IRP affiliate; Timothy Smeeding, who organized the APPAM session on poverty policy, is Maxwell Pro-The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has reached a unique milestone—forty years as ...

Four decades of research on hormonal contraception.

Four Decades of Research on School Bullying

This article provides an introductory overview of findings from the past 40 years of research on bullying among school-aged children and youth. Research on definitional and assessment issues in studying bullying and victimization is reviewed, and data on prevalence rates, stability, and forms of bullying behavior are summarized, setting the stage for the 5 articles that comprise this American P...

Four decades of antipoverty policy: Past developments and future directions

and obscures the secular increase in real expenditure on means-tested transfer programs taken as a whole. Indeed, Figure 1, which shows expenditures since 1968 in the 80 largest programs in the country, indicates that per-capita expenditure on means-tested programs is higher today than ever in its history. The enormous growth in real expenditure that occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ...

The Neurophysiology of Tone: Four Decades of Research

Tone processing has been used as a vehicle for investigating numerous questions concerning the neurophysiology of basic auditory perception, language, and music. Behavioral, dichotic-listening, lesion, and functional and anatomical neuroimaging studies have shed light on various debates of the neural organization of perceptual information. From our early fascination of hemispheric specializatio...