PAST EVENT
Friday, October 21, 2011
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
On October 21, The Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation hosted an event to release a new report from the Institute for American Values, "Second Chances: A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Divorce." The report examines new research showing that in at least 10 percent of divorcing couples, both spouses are open to efforts to reconcile--and in another 30 percent, at least one spouse has interest in reconciliation, and explores the idea that a substantial number of today’s divorces may be preventable. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
On October 27, The Future of Children hosted an event and released a new issue of their journal, which reports that unwed parents face a host of problems that complicate their ability to get good jobs, form stable families and perform successfully as parents. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani , August 2010, The Dubai Initiative
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani argues that prolonged economic disruptions in Iran caused by Western sanctions will continue to weaken the Iranian economy. While some policymakers believe that a weaker Iranian economy is not necessarily bad for U.S. foreign policy, this approach risks alienating Iran’s youth, which will have serious long-term consequences for the United States and its allies in the region. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Sara McLanahan, Ron Haskins, Irwin Garfinkel, Ronald B. Mincy and Elisabeth Donahue, Fall 2010, The Future of Children
In this policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to strengthening fragile families, the authors address the large number of families that begin when a child is born outside marriage. The authors outline proposals to provide support to single-parent families, to reduce the number of unwed births, to reduce incarceration of fathers by reforming sentencing laws, and to experiment with programs that have been shown to improve the relationships between unmarried parents. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ragui Assaad, Christine Binzel and May Gadallah, October 2010, Middle East Development Journal
Ragui Assaad, Christine Binzel, and May Gadallah examine two important transitions in the lives of young men, namely the transition from school to work and the transition to marriage. They analyze the determinants of the duration of transition to first employment, the type and quality of first jobs, and the duration of transition to a second job. In examining the transition to marriage, the authors investigate the effect of employment on the timing of marriage. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
On October 13, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings and the National Institute for Early Education Research released a new collection of papers that assesses the field of early childhood education and child care. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Justin Wolfers , October 13, 2010, The New York Times
Justin Wolfers counters recent reports suggesting that the recession has taken a toll on the institution of marriage by examining longer term demographic and cultural trends. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani , September 2010, The Dubai Initiative
Iran’s youth population, the highest in the world, faces increasing challenges following the global economic crisis of 2008. Djavad Salehi-Isfahani reviews evidence to show that the youth unemployment rate in Iran is at a record high and family formations are delayed. Salehi-Isfahani finds that youth transitions differ in rural and urban settings; and that this “waithood” for employment and marriage is more evident for disadvantaged youth. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Diana Greenwald, July 07, 2010, The Brookings Institution
The Middle East Youth Initiative has released a new study that explores youth transitions in Iran in depth, exploiting longitudinal data to track youth preferences and outcomes as they move from the education system into the labor and marriage markets. Diana Greenwald interviewed coauthor Djavad Salehi-Isfahani to discuss some of the paper’s main findings. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jonathan Rauch, July 02, 2010, The New York Times
Elena Kagan uttered neither the word “gay” nor “marriage” in her opening statement at the Senate confirmation hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court, but she addressed the issue nonetheless, writes Jonathan Rauch. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Daniel Egel and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani , June 2010, The Brookings Institution
In a new Middle East Youth Initiative study, Daniel Egel and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani examine the factors that affect youth transitions to adulthood in Iran, using retrospective data to connect individual outcomes in the education system and labor and marriage markets. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill, March 29, 2010, Huffington Post
Although the growth of income inequality has received much public attention in recent years, Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill argue that public policy should focus instead on expanding economic opportunity. By focusing on education as the key to economic success, they contend that their proposals would move the nation closer to providing a level playing field for all and substantially increase opportunity in America. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
Washington, DC
On December 1, the National Fatherhood Initiative released “Mama Says: A National Survey of Mothers’ Attitudes on Fathering” at an event sponsored by the Center on Children and Families at Brookings. The report shows that mothers say stable, well-functioning marriages are extremely important to good fathering, yet over half of mothers say fathers are replaceable by single mothers and nearly two-thirds of mothers say that fathers are replaceable by other men. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ron Haskins, November 05, 2009, Business Week
Can marriage decrease poverty? Higher marriage rates among the poor would benefit poor adults themselves, their children and the nation, says Ron Haskins. He argues that non-coercive programs that are delivered by community-based agencies can be effective. By helping couples who want to marry, the payoff to them, their children and society is potentially enormous. Read More
BOOK
Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill, September 15, 2009
Creating an Opportunity Society examines economic opportunity in the United States and explores how to create more of it, particularly for those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. Read More