The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame has received $275,000 in funding to continue its work reducing poverty and improving lives through evidence-based programs and policies.
LEO receives NIH grant to further acclaimed research on homelessness prevention
LEO's Jim Sullivan and Bill Evans will continue to study the impact of homelessness with NIH funding to study the impact on health. Read more here.…
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LEO Co-Founders Present at Notre Dame's Saturday Scholars Series
Bill Evans and Jim Sullivan shared how the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) fulfills Fr. Sorin's vision that Notre Dame be " one of the most powerful means of doing good in this country". Watch the full talk...
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Researchers find sharp decline in poverty in the U.S. despite report from U.S. Census Bureau.
LEO Director, Jim Sullivan, and Bruce Meyer of University of Chicago released the Consumption Poverty Report for 2016. Contrary to numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday (Sept. 12), Sullivan and Meyer show that poverty has fallen sharply in...
Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking Releases Final Report
Today the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP) released its final report, The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking. LEO co-Founder, Jim Sullivan, Associate Professor of Economics at Notre Dame, worked with policymakers on the creation of the Commission. In November 2016, he testified...
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Bring It On: LEO's Jim Sullivan Talks with APHSA's Policy and Practice Magazine about the Role of Research in Poverty Reduction.
In the August 2017 issue of Policy and Practice Magazine - a publication of the American Public Human Services Association - LEO Co-founder, Jim Sullivan, and President and CEO of Catholic Charities Fort Worth, Heather Reynolds talk about the challenges of changing...
New NBER Working Paper by LEO's Jim Sullivan and Bruce Meyer on consumption inequality.
LEO Co-founder, Jim Sullivan, the Rev. Thomas J. McDonagh, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Economics, and co-author Bruce Meyer of University of Chicago, have a new NBER Working Paper demonstrating the changes in income inequality and consumption inequality over the past 50...
LEO earns $700,000 in funding awards to support continued anti-poverty work.
The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame has received multiple funding awards totaling nearly $700,000 this summer to continue its work reducing poverty and improving lives through...
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Research by LEO's Jim Sullivan Highlighted in Real Clear Policy article on Data and Poverty
Fundamental to the work that LEO does is the use of data to improve understanding of anti-poverty programs. In a recent article for Real Clear Policy, Robert Doar, Morgridge Fellow of Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute articulates the...
LEO’s Jim Sullivan Presents on Homelessness Prevention at the National Human Services Data Consortium 2017 Spring Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In April 2017, Jim Sullivan, Associate Professor of Economics and co-Founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), presented to practitioners and data administrators from across the country at the Spring Conference of the...
LEO Faculty Affiliate Craig Gunderson talks SNAP program with the Washington Post.
LEO Faculty Affiliate Craig Gundersen sat down with the Washington Post to debunk some of the common misconceptions readers have about SNAP.
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James Sullivan to testify before Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
James Sullivan, co-founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Development and Rev. Thomas J. McDonagh, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, will testify Nov. 4 in...
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LEO receives NSF award to research the impact of homelessness
LEO Professor James X. Sullivan, Thomas J. McDonagh, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Economics and co-Founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the evaluation of the impact...
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