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Bio:
Dr. Mincy joined the School of Social Work faculty in 2001;he teaches Introduction to Social Welfare Policy and Program Evaluation. He came to the University from the Ford Foundation where he served as a senior program officer and worked on such issues as improving U.S. social welfare policies for low-income fathers, especially child support, and workforce development policies; he also served on the Clinton Administration's Welfare Reform Task Force.
He is a member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy, Chicago, IL. He is also an advisory board member for the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan; Technical Work Group for the Building Strong Families and Community Healthy Marriage Initiatives; the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative; Transition to Fatherhood, Cornell University; the National Fatherhood Leadership Group; the Longitudinal Evaluation of the Harlem Children's Zone; The Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts; and the National Partnership for Community Leadership. Dr. Mincy is also a former member of the Council, National Institute of Child and Human Development and the Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, co-chair of the Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce, a Board Member of the Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families.
Dr. Mincy is a co-principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Survey, a faculty member of the Columbia University Population Center, and the director of the School of Social Work’s Center for Research on Fathers, Children, and Family Well-being.
Research Interests:
- Economic and Social Mobility
- Family support
- Income security policy
- U.S. labor market
- Urban poverty
Current Projects:
- Fragile families
- Educational and Economic Attainment Among Black Bermudian Males and their Same-Age Peers
- Analysis of the New York State Enhanced Earned Income Tax
- Fathers and Sons Replication and Evaluation Project
Recent Publications:
Books
Black Males Left Behind. Edited by Ronald B. Mincy, 2006, Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press.
Black Fathers in Contemporary American Society. Edited by Obie Clayton, David Blankenhorn, and Ronald B. Mincy, 2003, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Articles
Edin, Kathryn, Tach, Laura, and Ronald B. Mincy. (Forthcoming). "Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Huang, Chien-Chung, Mincy, Ronald B., and Irwin Garfinkel. 2005. “Child Support Obligations of Low-Income Fathers: Unbearable Burden vs. Children’s Well-Being.” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67 (5): 1275-1286.
Mincy, Ronald B., Nepomnyaschy, Lenna, and Irwin Garfinkel. 2005. "In-Hospital Paternity Establishment and Father Involvement in Fragile Families." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67 (3): 511-626.
Carlson, Marcia, Garfinkel, Irwin, McLanahan, Sara, Mincy, Ronald B., and Wendell Primus. 2004. “The Effects of Welfare and Child Support Policies on Union Formation.” Population Research and Policy Review, 23 (5/6): 513-542.
Mincy, Ronald B. 2002. “What About Black Fathers?” The American Prospect, Spring: 36-38.
Mincy, Ronald B. 2001. “Marriage, Child Poverty, and Public Policy.” American Experiment Quarterly, 4 (2): 68-71.
Mincy, Ronald B. and Alan Dupree. 2001. “Welfare, Child Support, and Family Formation.” Children and Youth Services Review, 23 (6/7): 577-601.
Mincy, Ronald B. and Elaine Sorensen. 1998. “Deadbeats and Turnips in Child Support Reform.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter (17): pp. 450-453.
Galster, George, Mincy, Ronald B., and Mitch Tobin. 1997. “The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring.” Urban Affairs Quarterly, 32 (6): 797-824.
Galster,George, and Ronald B. Mincy. 1993. "Understanding the Changing Fortunes of Metropolitan Neighborhoods, 1980-1990." Housing Policy Debate, 4: 303-352.
Mincy, Ronald B. 1991. "Workforce 2000, Silver Bullet or Dud? Job Structure Changes and Economic Prospects for Black Males in the 1990s." Challenge, A Journal of Research on Black Men, 2 (1): 36-76.
Mincy, Ronald B. 1990. "Raising the Minimum Wage: Effects on Family Poverty." Monthly Labor Review, 113 (1): 18-25.
Sawhill, Isabel, Mincy, Ronald B., and Douglas Wolf. 1990. "The Underclass: Definitions and Measurement." Science, 248 (4954): 450-453.
Ricketts, Erol and Ronald B. Mincy. 1990. "Growth of the Underclass 1970-1980." The Journal of Human Resources, 25 (1): 137-145.
Mincy, Ronald B. 1989. "Paradoxes in Black Economic Progress: Incomes, Families, and the Underclass.” The Journal of Negro Education, 58 (3): 255-269.
Last updated Friday, 28-Mar-2008 11:42:46 EDT.
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