Isabel Van Devanter Sawhill is a senior fellow at The
Brookings Institution
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, where she formerly held the position of vice president and director of
Economic Studies, among other duties. She has authored or co-authored many books, including ''Generation Unbound: Drifting Into Sex and Parenthood Without Marriage'', and ''Creating an Opportunity Society'' with Ron Haskins. She won a
Daniel Patrick Moynihan prize with Ron Haskins.
Background
Sawhill received her Ph.D. in 1968 from
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
.
Prior to joining The Brookings Institution, Sawhill worked at the
Urban Institute
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. She served as an Associate Director in the
Office of Management and Budget
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during the first term of the
Clinton Administration
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.
Sawhill co-founded the nonprofit organization
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
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and serves on other nonprofit boards. She is a senior editor of
The Future of Children
The Future of Children is a biannual academic journal published by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution
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, a joint effort with
Princeton University
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.
Awards and recognition
* 2014, Exemplar Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
* 2016, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize (with Ron Haskins), from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
* 2016, named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association.
Further reading
*"A Longtime Proponent of Marriage Wants to Reassess the Institution's Future" profile in The Washington Post by Bridget Schulte, January 3, 2015.
*"Twenty Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown and Unmarried Moms" op-ed by Sawhill in The Washington Post, May 25, 2012.
*"Creating an Opportunity Society", by Sawhill and Ron Haskins. Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2009.
*"Generation Unbound" by Sawhill. Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2014.
*"Beyond Marriage" op-ed by Sawhill in The New York Times, September 13, 2014.
* ''Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget'', with Alice Rivlin.
* ''One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children''
* ''Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America''
Bibliography
*Ron Haskins; Isabel Sawhill ''Creating an Opportunity Society'', Washington : The Brookings Institution, 2009. ,
*''One percent for the kids : new policies, brighter futures for America's children'', Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2003. ,
*''Generation Unbound: Drifting Into Sex and Parenthood Without Marriage'' Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2014. ,
*''The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation'' New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018. ,
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References
External links
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1937 births
Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association
Living people
New York University alumni
Radical centrist writers
Brookings Institution people
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