Affiliate Publications

This section of the website highlights poverty-related research by faculty affiliates of the West Coast Poverty Center, focusing on the Center’s key themes of labor markets, demographics, family, inequality, and policies and programs. Research is searchable by topic or by author, as listed below.

Extensive research resources are also available through our fellow poverty centers at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky, and the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan. For additional poverty research resources, please see our Research Links page.

Poverty Research By Topic

Labor Markets	Research
Demographics	Research
Family	Research
Inequality	Research
Policies and Programs	Research

Poverty Research By Author

Gunnar Almgren - Research
Gunnar Almgren, West Coast Poverty Center Co-Director and Associate Professor, School of Social Work, is a social demographer with particular interests in health care policy and the social determinants of health.

Mark Ellis - Research
Senior Faculty Affiliate Mark Ellis is a Professor of Geography at the University of Washington who studies issues of migration, ethnicity, and local labor markets.

Anna Haley-Lock - Research
Anna Haley-Lock, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, studies workplace organizations as mechanisms for social stratification and social mobility for low-income workers.

Charles Hischman - Research
Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy, studies issues of ethnic and social stratification, social mobility, and immigration in the U.S. and internationally.

Marieka Klawitter - Research
Associate Professor Marieka Klawitter, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies public policies that affect work and income, including the effects of child support policies, welfare policies, and anti-discrimination p policies for sexual orientation.

Shelly Lundberg - Research
Senior Faculty Affiliate Shelly Lundberg is Castor Professor of Economics at the University of Washington and studies the economics of labor markets and the family, including both theoretical modeling and empirical analysis of fertility, labor supply, wage determination, and intra-household allocation of resources.

Marcia K. Meyers - Research
Senior Faculty Affiliate and Principal Investigator Marcia K. Meyers is Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. She studies U.S. welfare, child care and work/family reconciliation policies.

Becky Pettit - Research
Becky Pettit, Assistant Professor of Sociology, brings the perspectives of demography and economic sociology to the study of social, gender and racial inequalities.

Robert Plotnick - Research
Robert Plotnick, Co-Director, West Coast Poverty Center and Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies poverty, welfare, family formation and the determinants and consequences of teen and nonmarital fertility.

Barbara Reskin - Research
Barbara Reskin, S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, studies labor market stratification, examining job queues, nonstandard work, sex segregation, and affirmative action.

Jennifer Romich - Research
Jennifer Romich, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, combines the disciplines of economics and human development in her research on employment, family processes and use of tax and social benefits by low-income families.

David Takeuchi - Research
Professor David Takeuchi, School of Social Work, studies racial, socio-economic, and cultural factors associated with disparities in health, the initiation of care, and the results of health care.