Poverty Research and Data
John Iceland
University of Maryland
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
(Note: some hyperlinks below will not work without appropriate access to the linked databases)
Books
Iceland, John. 2006. Poverty in America (2nd Edition). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
--1st Edition published in 2003.
Iceland, John (Rapporteur). 2005. Workshop on Experimental Poverty Measures. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Iceland, John and Kurt J. Bauman. 2007. “Income Poverty and Material Hardship.” The Journal of Socio-Economics 36, 3: 376-96.
Iceland, John. 2003. “Why Poverty Remains High: Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Changes in Family Structure on Poverty, 1949-1999.” Demography, 40, 3 (August): 499-519.
Iceland, John, Kathleen Short, Thesia Garner, and David Johnson. 2001. “Are Children Worse Off? Evaluating Well-Being Using the New (and Improved) Measure of Poverty.” Journal of Human Resources 36, 2, 398-412.
Iceland, John and Josh Kim. 2001. "Poverty Among Working Families: Insights From an Improved Poverty Measure." Social Science Quarterly 82, 2 (June): 253-267.
Iceland, John. 2000. “The Family/Couple/Household Unit of Measurement in Poverty Estimation.” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 26: 1-13.
Iceland, John. 1997. “Urban Labor Markets and Individual Transitions Out of Poverty.” Demography 34, 3 (August): 429-441.
Iceland, John. 2007. “Poverty.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 3587-89.
Iceland, John. 2007. “The Dynamics of Poverty and Family Change Using Alternative Units of Analysis.” In Handbook of Measurement Issues in Family Research, ed. Sandra Hofferth. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 221-33.
Iceland John. 1995. "Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Cities: A Look at Metropolitan-Level Causes, 1970-80." In Research in Community Sociology, Vol. V. on Urban Poverty in Affluent Nations Dan A. Chekki (ed.). JAI Press.
Invited Publications
Iceland, John. 2005. “Why Concentrated Poverty Fell in the United States in the 1990s.” Population Reference Bureau internet article: http://www.prb.org/
Iceland, John. 2005. “The CNSTAT Workshop on Experimental Poverty Measures, June 2004.” Focus 23, 3 (Spring): 26-30.
Book Reviews
Review of Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada. Contemporary Sociology 36, 1 (January 2007): 24-25.
Review of Poor Kids in a Rich Country, in Children and Youth Services Review 27, 5 (May 2005): 571-572.
Review of One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All, in Social Forces 83, 1 (September 2004): 438-440.
Iceland, John, Lane Kenworthy, and Melissa Scopilliti. 2005. “Macroeconomic Performance and Poverty in the 1980s and 1990s: A State-Level Analysis.” Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Discussion Paper, DP # 1299-05.
Iceland, John and Kurt Bauman. 2004. “Income Poverty and Material Hardship: How Strong is the Association?” National Poverty Center Working Paper, #04-17 (December).
Iceland, John. 2003. The Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 1996-1999. Current Population Reports, P70-91. U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC.
Bishaw, Ale and John Iceland. 2003. Poverty: 1999. U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Brief Series, C2KBR-19.
Clark, Sandra Lucket, Iceland, John, Palumbo, Thomas, Posey, Kirby, and Mai Weismantle. 2003. “Comparing Employment, Income, and Poverty: Census 2000 and the Current Population Survey.” Census 2000 Auxiliary Evaluation, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, September.
Iceland, John. 2000. Poverty Among Working Families: Findings From Experimental Poverty Measures: 1998. U.S. Census Bureau Research Report, P23-203.
Iceland, John and David R. Harris. 1998. “Why Work Disappears: Neighborhood Racial Composition and Employers’ Relocation Intentions.” Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern University/University of Chicago, October, #1.
Iceland, John. 1997. “The Dynamics of Poverty Spells and Issues of Left-Censoring.” Research Report no. 97-378, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor.
U.S. Census Bureau poverty page: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html
World Bank poverty page: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/
National Center for Children in Poverty (Columbia U.): http://www.nccp.org/
Concentrated poverty information (Jargowsky): http://www.urbanpoverty.net/
National Poverty Center (U. Michigan): http://www.npc.umich.edu/
Institute for Research on Poverty (U. Wisconsin-Madison) http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research: http://www.ukcpr.org/Index1.html
Joint Center for Poverty Research (University of Chicago/Northwestern University): http://www.jcpr.org/
Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (London School of Economics): http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research: http://www.bris.ac.uk/poverty/
Chronic Poverty Research Centre (U. of Manchester): http://www.chronicpoverty.org/
Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change (Case Western University): http://povertycenter.cwru.edu/
Rural Poverty Research Center: http://www.rprconline.org/
Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program (Harvard U.): http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/urbanpoverty/
Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (UNESCO): http://www.crop.org/
Institute on Race and Poverty (U. Minnesota): http://www.irpumn.org/website/
Social Disadvantage Research Center (Oxford): http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sdrc/pages/index/index.html
Social class poverty links: http://www.abacon.com/sociology/soclinks/sclass.html
Catholic Campaign for Human Development: http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/index.htm
Raising the Minimum Wage: http://www.raiseminwage.org/
Population Reference Bureau: http://www.prb.org/
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: http://www.cbpp.org/
Child Trends: http://www.childtrends.org
Kids Count (Annie E. Casey Foundation): http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/KIDSCOUNT.aspx
Luxembourg Income Study: http://www.lisproject.org/
The Brookings Institution: http://www.brook.edu/default.htm
Economic Policy Institute: http://epinet.org/
The Heritage Foundation: http://www.heritage.org/
American Enterprise Institute: http://www.aei.org/
Center for Economic and Policy Research: http://cepr.net/
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre: http://www.unicef-icdc.org/
The Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org/
Mathematica Policy Research: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/
MDRC: http://www.mdrc.org/
Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism: http://www.researchforum.org/
Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/home.htm
Department of Health and Human Services: http://aspe.hhs.gov/
Bureau of Economic Analysis: http://www.bea.gov/
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John Iceland
2112 Art/Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1315
phone: 301-405-6430
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This page last updated on June 7, 2007.