Bio:

Dr. Ronald Mincy joined the School of Social Work faculty in 2001; he teaches Introduction to Social Welfare Policy, Program Evaluation, and Advanced Methods in Policy Analysis. 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 Leaders Group; the Longitudinal Evaluation of the Harlem Children's Zone; and The Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts.

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 Wellbeing Study, a faculty member of the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC), 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
• Child support
• Income security policy
• Responsible Fatherhood
• Low-wage labor markets
• Urban poverty

Current Projects:

• Core Support Grant. A grant from Open Society Institute’s Campaign for Black Male Achievement.
• Employment, Earnings, and Educational Attainment Gaps between Black Men and their Same-Age Peers in Bermuda. Funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies; and the Government of Bermuda.
• Fathers and Sons Replication Project Part II. A grant from the Ford Foundation.
• Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study (Co-Principal Investigator with Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn). National Institute of Child and Human Development.
• Participation and Allocation of the New York State Enhanced Earned Income Tax Credit. A grant from the Ford Foundation.
• Study of the Impact of the New York State Enhanced Earned Income Tax Credit. Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
• Trajectories of Young Black Males in the New York City Public Schools. A grant from The Black Male Donor Collaborative Fund of The Schott Foundation for Public Education.Educational and Economic Attainment Among Black Bermudian Males and their Same-Age Peers

Select Publications & Presentations:

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.

Nurturing Young Black Males: Challenges to Agencies, Programs and Social Policy. Edited by Ronald B. Mincy, 1994, Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press.

Book Chapters
Mincy, Ronald B. and Hillard Pouncy. 2007. “The Impoverished ‘Culture vs. Structure’ Debate on the Woes of Young Black Males and Its Remedy.” In The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics, edited by Georgia A. Persons. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
           
Mincy, Ronald B. and Hillard Pouncy. 2007. “Why We Should Be Concerned About Young, Less Educated, Black Men.” In Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream, edited by John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg. New York: The New Press.
           
Mincy, Ronald B., Lewis, Jr., Charles E., and Wen-Jui Han. 2006. “Young Less-Educated Black Men in the Economic Boom of the 1990s.” In Black Males Left Behind, edited by Ronald B. Mincy. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press.
           
Mincy, Ronald B. and Hillard Pouncy. 2003. “The Marriage Mystery: Marriage, Assets and the Expectations of African-American Families.” In Black Fathers in Contemporary American Society, edited by Obie Clayton, David Blankenhorn, and Ronald B. Mincy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Articles
Geller, Amanda Beth, Garfinkel, Irv, Cooper, Casey, and Ronald B. Mincy. (Forthcoming).“Parental Incarceration and Child Wellbeing: Implications for Urban Families.” Social Science Quarterly.

Tach, Laura, Mincy, Ronald B., and Kathryn Edin. (Forthcoming). “Parenting as a Package Deal: Relationships, Fertility, and Nonresident Father Involvement
among Unmarried Parents.” Demography.

Mincy, Ronald B., Hill, Jennifer, and Marilyn Sinkewicz. 2009. "Marriage: Cause or Mere Indicator of Future Earnings Growth?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28 (3):417-439.

Edin, Kathryn, Tach, Laura, and Ronald B. Mincy. 2009. "Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Fathers." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (1): 149-177.

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.

Presentations
Mincy, R.B.  “Marriage: Love it or Leave It?” The Second Annual Kristin Moore Lecture, Child Trends, December 2008.

Mincy, R.B. Panelist. “Connecting the Dots: Race, Poverty, and the Social Issues Fueling the Cycle of Incarceration,” Behind the Cycle: A National Summit to Advance an Integrative Approach to Justice Reform, Open Society Institute, Bethesda, MD, December 2008.

Mincy, R.B. Plenary, Opening Plenary. (Presentation of Key Findings in Evaluation of Five Responsible Fatherhood Pilot Sites.) New York State Responsible Fatherhood Conference, Albany, NY, October 2008.

Mincy, R.B. and Eva Haldane. “The Effects of Father Involvement on Risk Factors for Multiple Partner Fertility.” ADD Health Users Conference, NIH, Bethesda, MD, July 2008.

Mincy, R.B. "African American Male Unemployment: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee." 110th Congress, Washington DC, March 2007.