H. Luke Shaefer

Center Director, Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center.
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
Professor, School of Social Work.
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.

@profshaefer

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

lshaefer@umich.edu

734-936-5065

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Washington Post quotes Shaefer about wealth disparity amongst older Americans.

Shaefer quoted in Washington Post on the proposal of direct cash subsidies

H. Luke Shaefer honored with UM Faculty Recognition Award

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

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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. 2018. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Lifetime Prevalence of Homelessness in the United States." Demography, 55(6): 2119-2128.

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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Healthy Aging Project (Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness)

Detroit Homelessness Data Book Project (McGregor Fund)

Washtenaw County Summer Youth Employment Program (Wilson Foundation)

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)

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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