ISS Faculty Fellow/Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility Team 2008-2011

Daniel T. Lichter is the Ferris Family Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981.  He teaches courses in poverty and public policy and in demography. He is former editor of Demography, and has previously held faculty positions at Penn State University (1981-1999) and Ohio State University (1999-2005), where he directed population research and training centers. Much of his recent empirical work focuses on the implications of U.S. welfare reform for poverty, marriage and out-of-wedlock childbearing, and children’s living arrangements and economic well-being. He also studies spatial patterns of economic opportunity and inequality, racial residential segregation, and concentrated and persistent poverty, especially in rural communities (e.g., Appalachia and the Black Belt). Lichter also is studying emerging Latino destinations and the cultural and economic incorporation process among new immigrant groups. His involvement in the ISS poverty theme project will focus on changing linkages between family dynamics (i.e., marriage and family living arrangements) and poverty – both intra-generational and inter-generational patterns – and on the behavioral mechanisms that link economic well-being of parental and filial generations.

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