H. Luke Shaefer

Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center.
Associate Professor, School of Social Work.
Associate Professor, Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Ph.D., Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

Research Interests: Dr. Shaefer's research explores rising levels of extreme poverty in the US, the impact of SNAP on material hardships, barriers to unemployment insurance faced by vulnerable workers, and strategies for increasing access to oral health care in the United States.

May 16 Talk: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

lshaefer@umich.edu

734-936-5065

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H. Luke Shaefer honored with UM Faculty Recognition Award

Fusaro, Levy and Shaefer examine racial/ethnic disparities in the lifetime prevalence of homelessness

Shaefer sees small gains in US median household incomes as evidence of long post-recession recovery

Two new UM-Harvard partnerships address poverty and drug use in Detroit

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Shaefer, H. Luke, Kathryn Edin, and Kathryn Edin. 2018. "The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States." In Inequality in the 21st Century. Routledge.

Fusaro, Vincent A., Helen Levy, and H. Luke Shaefer. Forthcoming. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Lifetime Prevalence of Homelessness in the United States." Demography.

Rodems, R., and H. Luke Shaefer. 2016. "Left Out: Policy Diffusion and the Exclusion of Black Workers from Unemployment Insurance." Social Science History, 40(3): 385-404.

Kimberlin, S., H. Luke Shaefer, and Jiyoon Kim. 2016. "Measuring poverty using the Supplemental Poverty Measure in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1998 to 2010." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 41(1): 17-47.

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U-M/City of Detroit Homelessness Policy Fellow (Quicken Loans)

Mobility from Poverty Center and National Criminal Justice Data Expansion (Gates Foundation)

Deepening Our Understanding of America's Most Vulnerable Communities (RWJ)

City of Detroit Digital Inclusion Policy Fellow (Knight Foundation)

A Randomized Evaluation of the State of Michigan's Community Ventures Program (Gates Foundation)

The Spirit of '96: Race and the Continued Evolution of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation)

NCRN-MN: Linking Surveys to the World: Administrative Data, the Web, and Beyond. Michigan Node of the NSF-Census Research Network (NSF)

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