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Beth
Osborne Daponte is a Senior Research Scholar with ISPS
and also holds appointments in the School of Management (Program
on Non-Profit Organizations) and the Yale Center for International
and Area Studies. Trained as a demographer/sociologist, she
conducts research in three areas: Bayesian demography, welfare
policy, and human rights. She has applied her work in Bayesian
demography to the populations of South Africa, Lesotho, and
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Her work on welfare policy focuses
primarily on food assistance policies. She served as the vice-chair
of the Technical Advisory Board for Second Harvest’s national
study “Hunger in America 2001.” In the
human rights arena, her research examines the impact of economic
sanctions and war on populations, concentrating on Iraq. Dr.
Daponte has received grants from the National Science Foundation,
Joint Centers for Poverty Research, MacArthur Foundation, the
Institute for Research on Poverty, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation,
the Forbes Fund, Greenpeace International, and the U.S. State
Department. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in
Journal of the American Statistical Association, American
Journal of Public Health, Journal of Human Resources, Journal
of Poverty, Journal of Peace Research, PSR Quarterly, Jurimetrics,
Regional Studies, and the Journal of Nutrition Education.
Currently, she has support from the Institute for Research on
Poverty to examine the relationship between domestic obesity
trends and food policy, from the National Science Foundation
to examine U.S. census undercount, and from the Joint Centers
for Poverty Research to examine the relationship between food
security and food assistance policies.
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