The War on Poverty Project

Evaluating the lasting, economic effects of the War on Poverty

Sponsors

Lyndon B. Johnson speaking in front of a crowdThe War on Poverty project was generously supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation; the National Institutes of Health (R03- HD066145, R01-HD070950, HD058065-01A1, and L60-MD003213); the National Science Foundation (Grant 6334659); the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center (NPC); the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Small Grant Programs; the University of Michigan Population Studies Research Center’s Eva Mueller Award; the University of California-Berkeley’s Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (NIA 2P30AG012839); the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (5 UO1 PE000002-05); the University of California-Davis Center for Poverty Research (1H79AE000100-1 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Analysis, which was awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration); the Michigan RDC from the National Science Foundation (ITR-0427889); the West Coast Poverty Center (US DHHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 3 U01 PE000004-03S3); the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Dissertation Grant for the Study of the Nonprofit Sector; the Economic History Association’s Exploratory Data Collection Grant; the Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Fund; and the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School.

We gratefully acknowledge the use of the services and facilities of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan (funded by NICHD Center Grant R24 HD041028 and P2C HD041028).

During work on this project, Brenden Timpe was partially supported by the NIA (T32AG000221) as a UM Population Studies Center Trainee. During work on this project, Olga Malkova, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Bryan A. Stuart were supported by the NICHD (T32 HD0007339) as a UM Population Studies Center Trainee.