Jennifer Warlick
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Director, Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor
407 Decio Hall
Notre Dame, IN
46556
574.631.7529
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Personal faculty website
Poverty Studies website
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
M.A., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976
B.A., Economics, Duke University, 1972
Warlick’s scholarly interests are in the area of poverty policy and the effect of income taxes and transfers on the low income families and the elderly. From 1976-1979 she served as an economist in the Office of Income Security Policy, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare where she participated in the formulation and evaluation of policy regarding social insurance and income maintenance for the aged and disabled. From 1979-1982 she was a Research Associateat the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. She joined the Department of Economics at Notre Dame in 1982. From 1989-1997 she served as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Letters and Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.
Warlick has published in both national and foreign journals and in numerous books regarding income maitnenance policy and aging. Her current research focuses on the measurement of poverty and the labor market effects of high school graduation qualification exams. She teaches courses in the economics of poverty, industrial organization, and public sector economics.
Warlick is a long term member of the board of directors of the Early Childhood Development Center providing childcare services to the Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s communities and also volunteers her time to time to social service organizations in St. Joseph County such as the United Way and the YWCA.
Recent Honors/Awards
Jennifer Warlick, Collaborating with Britt Magneson, Director of Government Funded Programs, South Bend Community School Corporation to measure student mobility and design interventions to reduce it. Awarded Ganey Mini-Grant, April 2008, for proposal entitled, “Reducing School Switching to Increase Student Achievement.”
Arts and Letters News
History Major Explores Work of Missionaries in Colonial Peru
It is widely known that Spanish missionaries played a significant role in introducing Catholicism to the peoples of the Andes throughout the colonial period. Notre Dame senior history major Joseph VanderZee traveled to archives in Lima and Rome to dig a little deeper and find out what these early missionaries thought of the indigenous population—and how their attitudes affected the development of the Peruvian Church. Read More >
Theologian Gary Anderson Elected to American Academy of Jewish Research
Gary Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research (AAJR). The AAJR is the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America, and fellows are nominated and elected by their peers. The group has approximately 100 members in the United States—and Anderson is one of a select few who are not Jewish. Read More >
Solving a Fascinating Puzzle
Robert Goulding, an associate professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, was recently awarded a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support a research project that combines mathematics, philosophy, and Renaissance science. Goulding, who also teaches in the History and Philosophy of Science graduate program, says his work focuses on English scientist and mathematician Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), whom he calls “a really unusual figure” in intellectual history. Read More >
Microfinance Yields Mixed Results in Thailand, Economist Joseph Kaboski Finds
Large-scale microfinance programs are widely used as a tool to fight poverty in developing countries, but a recent study by University of Notre Dame economist Joseph Kaboski and MIT colleague Robert Townsend suggests that microfinancing can have varying results for participants and may not be the most cost-effective use of funds for many situations. The study was published in a recent issue of Econometrica. Kaboski and Townsend used the Thai Million Baht Village Fund, one of the largest government microfinance initiatives of its kind, to evaluate and understand the benefits and disadvantages of microfinance interventions. Read More >
