• $50,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  Housing

  MADISON, WISCONSIN — The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a leading university-based research center that focuses on the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. In 2010, the Institute received a grant through the Foundation's How Housing Matters research competition to study the effect of federal and state income support policies on homeownership stability and child maltreatment. This grant supports the integration into the study of previously- unavailable state administrative data, which will allow researchers to more precisely establish the direct effects of housing stress and foreclosure on involvement with the child protective services system.

• $110,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  Housing

  MADISON, WISCONSIN — The University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty is an interdisciplinary research center focused on the causes and consequences of U.S. poverty and social inequality. Research conducted under a prior grant showed that housing voucher receipt had a short-term negative effect on earnings, but that those negative effects diminish over time. The University will use this grant to explore why this analysis found a negative effect while other studies have found no effect, and will explore the factors that cause negative earnings effects to diminish over time.

• $600,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Housing

  MADISON, WISCONSIN — To research the effect of federal and state income support policies on homeownership stability and child maltreatment (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded University of Wisconsin – Madison Institute for Research on Poverty $760,000 between 2010 and 2013.