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Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality

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Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS)

Director: David B. Grusky

Office: 450 Serra Mall, Building 80

Mail Code: 94305-2029

Phone: (650) 724-6913

Email: inequality@stanford.edu

Web site: http://www.inequality.com

The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality supports research, training, and dissemination on issues of social, economic, and political inequality. A unit of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, the center has over 125 Stanford faculty affiliates, over 400 national and international fellows, and a program of visiting scholars.

The center supports a graduate training program in poverty and inequality in collaboration with the Public Policy Program. With funding from the Elfenworks Foundation, the center brings scholars of poverty and inequality to Stanford University to teach innovative classes, deliver public lectures, and develop new policy. The center sponsors the Berkeley-Stanford inequality workshop as well as a program of public lectures and seminars on poverty and inequality topics, including the Controversies in Inequality series.

Center faculty affiliates carry out research on a poverty and inequality topics, including causes and consequences, measuring techniques, and effects of interventions to reduce poverty and inequality.

In collaboration with Stanford University Press, the center sponsors the Controversies in Inequality series that addresses policy decisions about poverty and inequality and develops approaches to address them. In 2008, the center launched a web and hard copy magazine, Pathways. The center's web site serves as a clearinghouse for research, videos, podcasts, and trend data on poverty and inequality.

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