urban institute nonprofit social and economic policy research

Family / Parenting

To contact these experts, please call the Office of Public Affairs at (202) 261-5709
or email publicaffairs@urban.org.

Ajay Chaudry, director, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.

Areas of expertise: Poverty; child poverty, welfare reform, Head Start, working families, uncome support programs; children in immigrant families; management of social services programs.

Robert Lerman, institute fellow, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.

Areas of expertise: Family structure and composition; child support/paternity; unwed fathers; welfare reform; education and employment; income and wealth distribution; job training; poverty; school-to-work initiatives.

Elaine Sorensen, Income & Benefits Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Child support/paternity; noncustodial fathers; single-parent families; state child support collection policies.