Reducing Intergenerational Poverty: A Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The 2023 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Reducing Intergenerational Poverty, examines key drivers of long-term, intergenerational poverty, including the racial disparities and structural factors that contribute to this cycle. The report assesses existing research on the effects on intergenerational poverty of income assistance, education, health, and other intervention programs and identifies evidence-based programs and policies that have the potential to significantly reduce the effects of the key drivers of intergenerational poverty. The report also examines the disproportionate effect of disadvantage to different racial/ethnic groups. In addition, the report identifies high-priority gaps in the data and research needed to help develop effective policies for reducing intergenerational poverty in the United States.

This session will feature an overview of the report and recommendations from members of the committee that produced the consensus study, as well as discussion on future research directions based on the recommendations provided in the report.

Sub Unit

• AERA Research and Science Policy Sessions

Chair

• Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation

Participants

• Margaret R. Burchinal, University of Virginia

• Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University

Commentators

• Megan Bang, Northwestern University

• W. Steven Barnett, Rutgers University

• Vivian L. Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania