September 27, 2005 - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing: Speaker Series "Researcher Meets Policy Maker"

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"Low-Income Marriage and Child Wellbeing" by Kathryn Edin and Robert Doar

This event took place on September 27, 2005 at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. The panel included Kathryn Edin, an author who contributed to The Future of Children: Marriage and Child Wellbeing, and Robert Doar, the Commissioner of the New York state agency that oversees low income marriage and programs.

Kathryn Edin is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on poverty and social inequality, urban and community sociology, family and gender, public housing, child support, and nonmarital childbearing. Professor Edin is the author or coauthor of three books, There's a Lot of Month Left at the End of the Money: How Low Income Single Mothers Make Ends Meet in Chicago; Making Ends Meet: How Low Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work (with Laura Lein); and Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (with Maria J. Kefalas). She is currently writing a fourth book, tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood and the Lives Low Income Unmarried Men (with Timothy Nelson and Laura Lein).

Robert Doar is the Commissioner of New York States’s Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the New York state agency that administers welfare and other assistance programs. Prior to this appointment Commissioner Doar served as Executive Deputy Commissioner of OTDA since May 2000. Commissioner Doar previously was Deputy Commissioner of Child Support, a position he held for nearly five years. His work in child support enforcement earned him a “Golden Heart Award” from the Association for Children for the Enforcement of Support, a child support advocacy group. In 2000 the American Society for Public Administration recognized Commissioner Doar with its New Administrator Award.

“Why Don’t They Just Get Married? Barriers to Marriage among the Disadvantaged,” by Kathryn Edin and Joanna M. Reed

The Researcher Meets Policy Maker event on "Low-Income Marriage and Child Wellbeing" from September 27, 2005 can be viewed on your computer with a Windows Media Player. If you do not have the player installed, you can go to the Microsoft website and download it to your computer.

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