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Maria Cancian. La Follette School photo by Bob Rashid taken Feb. 2, 2005

Maria Cancian

Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Demography and Ecology

Office: 3436 Social Science Building
Phone: 608-265-9037
Fax: 608-265-3119
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Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393

Maria Cancian is Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Demography and Ecology. Her research is in the area of domestic social policy. Her recent research considers the impact of married women's growing employment and earnings on marriage patterns and the inter- and intra-household distribution of income, the work and income of women who have received welfare, and the implications of child support and custody for the well-being of divorced and never-married families. Since 1997 she has been Principal Investigator, with Daniel R. Meyer, of the Child Support Demonstration Evaluation, which evaluates child-support policy implemented as part of welfare reform in Wisconsin.

Professor Cancian has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. She is vice president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Her articles have appeared in journals including Demography, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Review of Economics and Statistics and Social Service Review. She received her doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan.

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La Follette School Working Paper Series