Curriculum Vitae

Full CV

Distinguished Professor and Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, School of Social Welfare, 120 Haviland Hall, University of California, Berkeley.

Education

1963 B.A. Sociology from Brooklyn College
1965 M.S.W. with honors from University of Pittsburgh
1968 Ph.D. major in Social Work; minor in Sociology from University of Pittsburgh

Experience

Present Position Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services, University of California, Berkeley, Director, Family Welfare Research Group, and Co-Director of the U.C. Berkeley Center for Child and Youth Policy
1994 to 1996 Acting Dean, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
1977 to 1988 Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
1986 Acting Dean (1/86 to 7/86) and Professor of Social Welfare, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
1973 to 1977 Associate Professor of Social Welfare, School of Social Welfare, University of California, University of California, Berkeley
1974 to 1975 Senior Research Fellow, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva
1969 to 1973 Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
1966 to 1969 Associate Director and Director of Research and Planning, Mayor's Committee on Human Resources, Pittsburgh, PA (Pittsburgh's Community Action Agency)
1965 Administrative Assistant to the Director of Urban Extension, ACTION-Housing, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; and Instructor, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Social Work
1963 Caseworker, Interdepartmental Neighborhood Service Center, Harlem, New York City (pilot project on service integration for welfare recipients)

Research Grants

2013-17 Principal Investigator – National Abandoned Infants Resource Center, Department of
Health and Human Services, $3,750,000
2010-13: Principal Investigator – National Abandoned Infants Resource Center, Department of Health and Human Services, $3,750,000.
2006-09: Principal Investigator – National Abandoned Infants Resource Center, Department of Health and Human Services, $3,500,000.
2006-08: Principal Investigator – Evaluation of Contra Costa County’s Differential Response System, California Social Work Education Center, Title IV-E Grant, $149,000.
2003-05: Principal Investigator – “Gender Implications of Social Security Reform” Hyman Family Foundation, $20,000.
2004-05: Principal Investigator – “Analysis of State Policies Regarding Treatment of Prenatally Drug Exposed Newborns and Their Mothers” – Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $100,000.
2003-07: Principal Investigator – National Abandoned Infants Resource Center, Department of Health and Human Services, $2,700,000.
1998-02: Principal Investigator – National Abandoned Infants Resource Center, Department of Health and Human Services, $2,700,000.
1998-99: Principal Investigator – “Comparative Analysis of Targeting Social Benefits and Welfare To Work Policies,” International Social Security Association, $29,000.
1997-99: Principal Investigator – “Comparative Analysis of Welfare States in Transition,” Smith Richardson Foundation, $162,300.
1995-96: Principal Investigator – “Analysis of Risk Assessment in Child Abuse Reporting,” California Policy Seminar, $48,000.
1995: Principal Investigator – “Comparative Study of Child Abuse Reporting Systems in Nine Countries,” Smith Richardson Foundation, $17,500.
1991-92: Principal Investigator – “Restructuring Entry Level Positions in Child Welfare,” American Enterprise Institute, $11,000.
1990-95: Co-Principal Investigator – “Child Welfare Research Center,” Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Human Development Services, $798,981.
1990-92: Principal Investigator – “Social Impacts of Welfare Reform,” Smith Richardson Foundation, $177,231.
1989-91 : Co-Principal Investigator – “Development of Neighborhood Family Maintenance Organizations,” San Francisco Foundations, Zellerbach Foundation, van Loben Sels Foundation, $195,000.
1989-91: Principal Investigator – “Welfare Reform and Child Care: Implications for Family Life,” Walter S. Johnson Foundation, $150,500.
1986-89: Principal Investigator – “Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Assessing the Impacts of Alternative Models on Elementary School Children and Directing Future Policy,” The Conrad Hilton Foundation, $659,372.
1985-87: Principal Investigator – “Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Evaluation of Educational Materials,” Dept. of Health and Human Services, Grant # 90-CA-1163, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, $325,864.
1985-87: Co-Principal Investigator – “Coordinating Interagency Response to Child Sexual Abuse,” Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Grant # 90-CA-1059, $150,407.
1984-87: Principal Investigator – “Child Abuse Prevention Project,” Office of Child Abuse Prevention, State of California, Dept. of Social Services, Grant # 09-CA-20-01, $504,868.
1978-80: Principal Investigator – “Services to the Elderly Under Title XX: An Analysis of National Trends 1975-79,” Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Grant #90-A-1677, $173,350.
1976-78: Co-Principal Investigator – “An Analysis of the Implications of Title XX Service Plans for the Nationwide Development of Local Comprehensive Service Delivery Systems for the Aged,” Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Grant #90-A-945/01, $173,700.
1974-75: Principal Investigator – “Implementing the Coordination of Social Services,” Department of Health, Education and Welfare Grant #90-A-368/01, $49,170.

Fellowships, Honors, & Awards

2026 Doctor Honoris Causa Spain's UNED (National University of Distance Education)
2020 Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid
2016 Visiting Professor, Hamburg University
2014 Fellow American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
2010 Visiting Scholar Oxford University, Department of Social Policy
2007 Sidney Ball Lecture, Oxford University
2000 Teacher of the Year, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
1995 Beatty Lecturer, McGill University
1995 Silberman Fund Award
1992 Visiting Scholar, International Social Security Association, Geneva
1987 Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction, University of Pittsburgh
1987 Fulbright Western European Research Fellowship, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Stockholm
1982 Visiting Fulbright Lecturer Tel Aviv University & Haifa University, Israel
1982 Visiting Professor, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
1981 Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, National Institute for Social Work, London
1975 Senior Research Fellow, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva

Editorial Service

2020 to present Editorial Board Chinese Social Security Review
2020 to present Editorial Board, Social Policy in Social Science
2016 to present Co-Editor-in-Chief, Oxford University Press Library on International Social Policy ( 5 volumes)
2015 to present Editorial Advisory Board, Social Work Series,Thomson Reuters/ Aranzadi,
2012 to present International Editorial Advisor, Social Policy and Society
2012 to present Editorial Advisory Board Comunitania
2009 to present Scientific Commission Board of Review, Population and Society
2008 to present Advisory Editor, Oxford Bibliographies Online Social Work
2008 to present Co-Editor, Oxford University Press. Series on International Policy Exchange (17 volumes)
2004 to present International Advisory Board, Social Work and Society
2002 Consulting Editor, International Encyclopedia of Social Policy, Routledge
2000 to present Editorial Board, Journal of Policy Practice
1999 to 2010 Editor, International Social Security Series, Transaction Publishers
1998 to 2014 Advisory Board, Vital STATS, Newsletter of the Statistical Assessment Service
1998 to present Chair, Editorial Board, International Journal of Social Welfare
1997 to present Editorial Advisory Board, International Social Security Review
1997 to present Editorial Board, Gender Issues
1997 to present Editorial Board, European Journal of Social Work
1997 to 2001 Editorial Board, Journal of Social Work Education
1996 to 2007 Oxford University Press, USA Delegate for Social Work and Sociology
1990 to present Editorial Board, Children and Youth Services Review
1987 Editorial Review Board, Social Work Dictionary
1982 to 1989 Overseas Editorial Advisor, The Journal of Social Policy
1979 to 1985 Consulting Editor, Social Work
1977 to 2000 Editor Prentice Hall Series, Social Work and Social Welfare (23 volumes)
1977 to 1982 Editor, Praeger Publishers series on The Social Services (7 volumes)
1976 to 1989 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Social Service Research
1975 to 1979 Member, Editorial Board, Social Work
1972 to 1974 Co-editor, Warner Modular Publications series, Social Welfare Policy and Planning

Books

Books have been reviewed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, Society, Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The American Interest and leading academic journals. Several works have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Italian.
Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell, Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy, 8th ed. (Boston: Pearson 2013).
* Translated into Korean (2020)
Neil Gilbert, Never Enough: Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
* Excerpts in the Atlantic and The American Interest
Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell, Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (8th edition) (Boston: Pearson, 2013).
*Translated into Chinese by Li Shen, East China University of Science and Technology Press
Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell, Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (7th edition) Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2010).
Neil Gilbert. A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Society Notable Book
Atlantic Selection (July/August, 2008).
Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (6th edition) (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2005).
Translated into Korean 2007.
Neil Gilbert. Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Paperback edition, 2004.
Translated into Chinese Truth and Wisdom Press, 2009
Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (5th edition) (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002).
Translated into Chinese 2003.
Neil Gilbert. From Welfare State to Enabling State (in Korean) collected works edited and translated by Kim, Young Hwa, Lim, Sungok and Hgong, Jeong Won (Seoul, Korea: Hanul Publishing, 2001).
Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (4th edition) (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998).
Neil Gilbert. Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
Paperback edition 1997.
Chapter 4 reprinted in Mary Roth Walsh, Women, Men and Gender: Ongoing Debates (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Neil Gilbert, Harry Specht, and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy, 3rd edition (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993).
Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert. With the Best of Intentions: The Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Movement (New York: Guilford Publishers, 1991).
Jeanne Pietrzak, Malia Ramler, Tanya Renner, Lucy Ford, and Neil Gilbert. Practical Program Evaluation: Examples From Child Abuse Prevention (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990).
Neil Gilbert and Barbara Gilbert. The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Translated into Japanese (1999).
Neil Gilbert, Jill Duerr Berrick, Nicole Le Prohn, and Nina Nyman. Protecting Young Children From Sexual Abuse (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989).
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy, 2 nd edition, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1986).
Neil Gilbert. Capitalism and the Welfare State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).
Paperback edition 1984.
Chapter 6 translated into Italian by Ugo Ascoli in Azione Voluntaria e Welfare State (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1987).
Translated into Korean (1994).
Translated into Japanese (Chou Hoki Shuppan: Tokyo, 1995).
New York Times Notable Book.
Neil Gilbert, Henry Miller and Harry Specht. Introduction to Social Work Practice (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1980).
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. The Dynamics of Community Planning (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1978).
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. Coordination of Social Services: An Analysis of Community, Organizational and Staff Characteristics (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1977).
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1974).
Chapter 8 reprinted in Fred Cox, et al., Strategies of Community Organization (Itasca: Peacock Publishers, 1979).
Translated into Chinese (1999).
Neil Gilbert. Clients or Constituents (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1970).

Edited Volumes

Mary Daly, Birgit Pfau-Effinger,Neil Gilbert and Douglas Besharov (eds.) Oxford International Handbook of
Family Policy: A Life Course Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024)
Kyungbae Chung and Neil Gilbert (eds.) The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging Society (New York:Oxford University Press. 2024)
Jill Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes (Eds.) International Handbook of Child Protection Systems (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024)
Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton and Marit Skivenes (Eds.). Child Protection Systems: International Trends and Orientations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). United in Diversity: Comparing Social Models in Europe and America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). Raising Children: Emerging Need, Modern Risks and Social Responses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Neil Gilbert (Ed.). Gender and Social Security: What's Fair for Women (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006).
Neil Gilbert and Antoine Parent (Eds.). Welfare Reform: French and US Experiences (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2004).
Ramesh Mishra, Stein Khunle, and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). Modernizing the Korean Welfare State: The Productive Welfare Model (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2004).
Neil Gilbert and Rebecca Van Voorhis (Eds.). Changing Patterns of Social Protection (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2003).
Neil Gilbert and Rebecca Van Voorhis (Eds.). Activating the Unemployed (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
Translated into Chinese, (China Labour and Social Security Publishing House, 2003).
Neil Gilbert (Ed.). Targeting Social Benefits: International Perspectives on Issues and Trends (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
Translated into Chinese (China Labour and Social Security Publishing House, 2003).
Neil Gilbert (Ed.). Combating Child Abuse: Comparative Perspectives on Reporting Systems and Placement Trends (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Jill Duerr Berrick, Rick Barth, and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). Child Welfare Research and Policy Review Bi-Annual: Volume II (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Richard Barth, Jill Duerr Berrick, and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). Child Welfare Research and Policy Review Bi-Annual: Volume I (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
Robert Friedmann, Neil Gilbert and Moshe Sherer (Eds.). Modern Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects (Sussex, England: Wheatsheaf Books Ltd., and New York: New York University Press, 1987).
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). Handbook of the Social Services (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1981).
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). The Emergence of Social Work and Social Welfare, 2nd edition (Itasca: Peacock Publishers, 1981).
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). Planning for Social Welfare: Issues, Models and Tasks (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1977).
Translated into Chinese.
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). The Emergence of Social Work and Social Welfare (Itasca: Peacock Publishers, 1976).

Articles and Chapters

143 Neil Gilbert, How I Learned To Teach Socialism at Berkeley, Inquisitive, Sept. 2026 link
142. Taylor Brown and Neil Gilbert "comparative social welfare" Encyclopedia of Social Work ( Oxford University Press, 2024).
141. Neil Gilbert, "Challenges to the scientific Practice of Social Work Historical Tensions between Cause and
Function," in, ed. Antonio Lopez Pelaez, et. al. Social Welfare Programs and Social Work Education at a
Crossroads: New Approaches for a Post-Pandemic Society, (Routledge, 2025).
140. Mimon Mohamed Si Ali, Jamal Toutouh El Alamin, Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo, Neil Gilbert.
“Socioeconomic barriers and educational pathways of unaccompanied foreign minors in Europe's southern border,” International Journal of Social Welfare (June, 2025).
139. Neil Gilbert, “Modern Challenges to Social Security: The Second Demographic Transition,”
Chinese Social Security Review (2022) 1. Trans.into Chinese Professor
138. Neil Gilbert and Anis Brik, “Family Life and the Demographic Transition in MENA Countries:
Implications for Social Policy", Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. (2022), 1–
20 doi:10.1017/ics.2021.17
137. Anis Ben Brik and Neil Gilbert, "Preparation and Response to COVID19 : An Exploratory
Analysis of Policy Response Spending and Health Expenditures in 20 OECD Countries,' Journal of
Sociology and Social Welfare (2022)
136. Neil Gilbert, "Friendly For Which Families," in Oren Cass ed. Home Building Public Policy for the American
Family. Washington D.C.: American Compass, 2020) link Feb. 23, 2021
135 Neil Gilbert and Anis Ben Brik, “Family-Sensitive Policy: Broadening the Conceptual Lens for Evaluating
Social Protection,” Society (2020).
134 Schwartz –Tayri, T. M., Moshe-Grodofsky, M., Malka, M., & Gilbert, N.. 'Integrating micro and macro practice: An evaluation of the policy advocacy course." Journal of Social Work Education (2020). link
133 Cheng-Huei Hong and Neil Gilbert "Cognitive Dissonance and Fertility Rates: A comparative analysis of
Attitudes toward the gender division of labor in East Asian and Western Industrial Countries" Social Policy
And Society (2020)
132 Neil Gilbert, "Social Ills: What Inequality Doesn't Mean," The American Interest 12:5 (March/April 2017). link
131 Neil Gilbert,”Prosperity, Not Upward Mobility,Is What Matters,” The Atlantic (1/5/2017) link
130 Neil Gilbert "The Inequality Hype," The American Interest (January/ February 2017) link
129 Antonio Lopez Pelaez, Sagrario Segado and Neil Gilbert (eds.) “The Decline of the Middle Classes,” Special Issue of Social Work and Society. 14:1 (2016).
128 Neil Gilbert, "The 21st Century Enabling State: Public Support for Private Responsibility in the U.S," in Dongtao Qi and Lijun Yang eds. Social Changes and Social Policy Reforms in West, Asia and China (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing 2016)
127. Neil Gilbert, “Institutionalized Discontent,” Society 53:4 (July 2016) link
126. Jing Guo and Neil Gilbert, “Public Attitudes Toward Government Responsibility for Child Care: The Impact of Individual Characteristics and Welfare Regimes,” Children and Youth Services Review (2014).
125. Neil Gilbert, “Restructuring the Mixed Economy of Welfare: Three Modes of Privatization,” European Policy Analysis (2017).
124. Neil Gilbert, “Social Welfare Trends in Western Societies: Privatization and the Challenge to Social Work,” Arbor (2013).
123. Neil Gilbert, “What Poverty Means,” The American Interest (July/August 2012).
122. Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton and Marit Skivenes, “Changing Patterns of Response and Emerging Orientations” in Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton and Marit Skivenes, Child Protection Systems (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
121. Neil Gilbert, “Anomalies in European Measures of Poverty and Social Exclusion,” in Douglass Besharov and Kenneth Couch, Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
120. Neil Gilbert, “The American Challenge in Cross National Perspective,” in Jacob Hacker and Ann O’Leary (Eds.), Shared Responsibility Shared Risk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
119. Neil Gilbert “Citizenship in the Enabling State: The Changing Balance of Rights and Obligations,” in Adalbert Evers and Anne-Marie Guillemard (Eds.), Social Policy and Citizenship (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
118. Jing Guo and Neil Gilbert, “Public Attitudes and Gender Policy Regimes: Coherence and Stability in Hard Times,” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (2013).
117. Neil Gilbert, “A Comparative Study of Child Welfare Systems: Abstract Orientations and Concrete Results,” Children and Youth Services Review (2011).
116. Neil Gilbert and Douglas Besharov, “Welfare States Amid Economic Turmoil: Adjusting Work-Oriented Policies,” Policy and Politics (2011).
115. Neil Gilbert, “Mother's Work: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Welfare State,” in Peter Kemp (Ed.), Social Protection for a Post-Industrial World (Intersensia: Antwerp, 2010).
114. Neil Gilbert, “Sold Down the River?” The House: Parliament's Weekly Magazine, No. 1345: Vol. 35 (May 24, 2010), p. 35.
113. Neil Gilbert, “Comparative Analyses of Stateness and State Action: What Can We Learn From Patterns of Expenditure?” in Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (Eds.), United in Diversity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
112. Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert, “The Epistemology of Comparative Analyses: What Do We Know? in Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (Eds.), United in Diversity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
111. Neil Gilbert, “Accounting for Employee Benefits: Issues of Measurement, Valuations and Social Equivalencies,” in Douglas Besharov and Kenneth Couch, Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons From the U.S. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
110. Neil Gilbert, “The Least Generous Welfare State: A Case of Blind Empiricism,” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Sept. 2009).
109. Neil Gilbert, “European Measures of Poverty and Social Exclusion: Material Deprivation, Consumption and Satisfaction,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28:4 (2009).
108. Neil Gilbert. “Women's Work: Updating Feminism for Families,” The American Interest (July/Aug. 2009).
107. Neil Gilbert. “U.S. Welfare Reform: Rewriting the Social Contract,” Journal of Social Policy, 38:3 (2009).
106. Neil Gilbert “Motherhood, Work, and Family Policy,” in Jill Berrick and Neil Gilbert (Eds.), Raising Children: Emerging Need, Modern Risks and Social Responses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
105. Jing Guo and Neil Gilbert. “Welfare State Regimes and Family Policy: A Longitudinal Analysis,” International Journal of Social Welfare (October 2007).
104. Neil Gilbert. “The Enabling State? From Public to Private Responsibility for Social Protection: Pathways and Pitfalls,” OECD Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 26 (2005).
103. Neil Gilbert. “Family Life: Sold on Work,” Society (March/April 2005).
Summary reprint in Chronicle of Higher Education (February 28).
102. Neil Gilbert. “Protection to Activation: The Apotheosis of Work:” in Peter Saunders (Ed.), Welfare to Work in Practice (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005).
101. Neil Gilbert. “What Do Women Really Want?” The Public Interest (Winter, 2005).
Summary reprint in The American Enterprise.
100. Neil Gilbert. “Advocacy Research Overstates the Incidence of Date and Acquaintance Rape,” in Richard Gelles and Donileen Loseke (Eds.), Controversies on Family Violence (2nd edition) (New Bury Park: Sage publications, 2004).
99. Neil Gilbert. “Welfare, Poverty and Social Services: International Experiences,” in Midgley and Hokenstad (Eds.), Social Welfare: Innovations From Abroad (Washington DC: NASW Press, 2004).
98. Neil Gilbert. “Productive Welfare and the Market Economy: Korea’s Enabling State,” in Ramesh Mishra, Stein Khunle, and Neil Gilbert, Modernizing the Korean Welfare State: The Productive Welfare Model (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2003).
97. Neil Gilbert, “Welfare Policy in the U.S.: The Road from Income Maintenance to Workfare,” Neil Gilbert and Antoine Parent (Eds.), Welfare Reform: A Comparative Assessment of French and U.S. Experiences (New Brunswick: Transaction Publications, 2003).
93. Neil Gilbert and Rebecca Van Voorhis. “Emerging Patterns,” in Gilbert and Van Voorhis (Eds.), Changing Patterns of Social Protection (New Brunswick: Transaction Publications, 2003).
92. Neil Gilbert and Rebecca Van Voorhis. “The Paradox of Family Policy,” Society (September 2003).
94. Neil Gilbert. “Tax Expenditures,” “Claw Back,” “Bubble Effect,” International Encyclopedia of Social Policy (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
93. Neil Gilbert, “Renegotiating Social Allocations: Choices and Issues,” in Neil Gilbert (Ed.), Targeting Social Benefits: International Perspectives and Trends (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
92. Neil Gilbert and Rebecca A. Van Voorhis. “Activating the Unemployed: The Challenge Ahead,” in Neil Gilbert and Rebecca A. Van Voorhis (Eds.), Activating the Unemployed: A Comparative Appraisal of Work-Oriented Policies (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
91. Neil Gilbert. “Social Functions of the Welfare State: Perspectives on Solidarity,” In S. Mueller, H. Suenker, T. Olk, and K. Boellert (Eds.), Soziale Arbeit. Gesellschaftliche Bedingungen Professionelle Perspektiven. Luchterhand (Verlag: Neuwied, 2000) ( Social Work. Social Conditions and Professional Perspectives ).
90. Neil Gilbert. “Dienstleistungskontrakte: Strategien und Riskiken,” in Hans-Uwe Otto and Stefan Schnurr (Eds.), Privatisierung und Wettbewerb in der Jugendhilfe (Germany: Luchterhand 2000) (“Contracting for Services: Methods and Pitfalls”).
89. Neil Gilbert, “Pluralism and Social Policy,” in J. Midgley, M. Tracy, and M. Livermore (Eds.), Handbook of Social Policy (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 2000).
88. Neil Gilbert. Selvhjelpsstaten et Nytt Paradigme for Sosial Trygghet (The Enabling State: An Emerging Paradigm for Social Protection translated into Norwegian) (Oslo: Fafo, Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science, 1999).
87. Neil Gilbert. “The Size and Influence of the Underclass: An Exaggerated View,” Society, 37:1, (December 1999).
86. Neil Gilbert, “Special Issue Editorial: Protecting Children: Policies and Practices in Child Welfare,” International Journal of Social Welfare (October, 1999).
85. Neung-Hoo Park and Neil Gilbert, “Social Security and the Incremental Privatization of Retirement Income,” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 26:2 (June 1999).
84. Neil Gilbert. “From Service to Social Control: Implications of Welfare Reform for Professional Practice in the U. S.,” European Journal of Social Work, 1:1 (1998).
83. Neil Gilbert, “Privatization and Professionalization: Challenges to Service Delivery in the U. S.,” in Gaby Flosser and Hans-Uwe (Eds.), Toward More Democracy in Social Services (Walter De Gruyter: Berlin 1998).
82. Neil Gilbert. “Remodeling Social Welfare” Society (July/August, 1998).
81. Neil Gilbert. “Social Security as an Instrument for Social Cohesion: Overview of Possibilities and Limitations” International Social Security Association/Tec/Conf2 (March 1998).
80. Rebecca Van Voorhis and Neil Gilbert. “The Structure and Performance of Child Abuse Reporting Systems,” Children and Youth Services Review (1998).
79. Neil Gilbert. “Advocacy Research and Social Policy,” in Michael Tonry (Ed.), Crime and Justice: A Review of Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
78. Neil Gilbert, “Harry Specht: Biographical Sketch,” Encyclopedia of Social Work (19th edition) (New York: NASW Press, 1997).
77. Neil Gilbert. “Social Security in the United States: From Welfare to Enabling State,” in International Institute of Administrative Science Working Group on Social Security Systems (Eds.), Transformations in Social Security Systems (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1997).
76. Neil Gilbert. “Working Families: Hearth to Market,” in Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, and Steve Sugarman (Eds.), The Evolving American Family: New Policies for New Families (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
75. Barbara Needell and Neil Gilbert. “Child Welfare and the Extended Family” in Jill Duerr Berrick, Richard Barth and Neil Gilbert (Eds.), Child Welfare Research Review Vol. II (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
74. Ruth Lawrence Karski, Neil Gilbert, and Laura Frame. “Evaluating the Emergency Response System’s Screening, Assessment, and Referral of Child-Abuse Reports,” California Policy Seminar Brief, Vol. 9, No. 5 (December 1997).
73. Neil Gilbert. “Balancing Priorities on Welfare Reform,” Society (May/June 1996).
72. Neil Gilbert, “Welfare Reform: Implications and Alternatives, Hastings Women's Law Journal, 7:2 (1996).
71. Neil Gilbert and Neung Hoo Park. “Privatization, Provision, and Targeting: Trends and Policy Implications for Social Security in the U.S., “ International Social Security Review (1996) (translated in French, Spanish, and German).
70. Neil Gilbert, “Welfare Reform: It’s Not About Money,” Ethics and Policy (Summer 1995).
69. Neil Gilbert. “Sexual Abuse Prevention in the United States: An Evaluation of Research and Practice,” in Handbuch Sexueller Missbrauch ( Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse ), Katharina Rutschky and Reinhart Wolff (Eds.) (Hamburg: Ingrid Klein Verlag, 1994) (published in German).
68. Neil Gilbert, “Was It Rape? An Examination of Sexual Abuse Statistics,” The American Enterprise (September/October, 1994).
Reprinted in Lawrence Salinger (Ed.), Deviant Behavior (Guilford, CT: Brown and Benchmark Publishers, 1995);
Revised version reprinted in Rita Simon (Ed.), Neither Victim nor Enemy: Women's Freedom Network Looks at Gender in America (Lanham, MD: University Press of America and Women's Freedom Network, 1995).
Reprinted in Peter Adler and Patti Adler (Eds.), Constructions of Deviance: Social Power Context, and Interaction (Wadsworth Publishing, 1996).
67. Neil Gilbert. “Why the New Workfare Won't Work,” Commentary (May 1994).
Reprinted in Scott Barbour (Ed.), Work: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1994).
Reprinted in Michael Cooley and Katherine Powell (Eds.), Making Choices: Reading Issues in Context (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).
66. Helen Ahn and Neil Gilbert. “Cultural and Ethnic Factors in Preventing Child Abuse,” in Schulische Pravention Gegensexuelle Kindesmisshandlung ( Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in School: Between Hope and Reality ), editor Brunhilde Marquardt-Mau (Juventa Verlag, 1995) (published in German).
65. Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert, “Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in American Primary Schools,” in Schulische Pravention Gegensexuelle Kindesmisshandlung ( Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in School: Between Hope and Reality ), editor Brunhilde Marquardt-Mau (Juventa Verlag, 1995) (published in German).
64. Neil Gilbert and Kwong Leung Tang. “Privatization of Social Welfare in the United States: Scope, Rationale, and Performance,” in Norman Johnson (Ed.), Private Markets in Social Welfare: An International Perspective (Berg Publishers, 1995).
63. Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert. “Should Sexual Abuse Prevention Training Be Required in the Schools?” in Eileen Gambrill and Mary Ann Mason, Issues in Child Welfare (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994).
62. Neil Gilbert. “From Welfare to Enabling State,” in Adalbert Evers and Ivan Svetlik (Eds.), S hifts in the Welfare Mix (London: Avebury/Aldershot, 1994).
61. Neil Gilbert. “Gender Equality and Social Security,” Society (May/June, 1994).
60. Neil Gilbert. “Miscounting Social Ills,” Society (March/April, 1994).
59. Neil Gilbert. “Touch and Stop,” Reason (March 1994).
58. Neil Gilbert. “Social Policy and Family Relations: Choices for Change,” International Social Security Review, 3/4 (1994) (translated in French, Spanish and German).
57. Neil Gilbert. “Gender Equality, Family Policy, and Social Care,” in Peter Saunders and Sheila Shaver (Eds.), Theory and Practice in Australian Social Policy. Proceedings of the National Social Policy Conference, Sydney, July 14-17, 1993.
56. Helen Ahn and Neil Gilbert. “Cultural Diversity and Sexual Abuse Prevention,” Social Service Review (September, 1992).
* Reprinted in Lois McDermott, Culture and Sexuality (4th edition) (Simon and Schuster, 1996).
55. Neil Gilbert. “Realities and Mythologies of Rape,” Society (May/June 1992).
Revised version reprinted in Richard Gelles and Donileen Loseke, Current Controversies on Family Violence (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, forthcoming);
Human Sexuality-Annual Editions, 1992;
Selected as most significant article in 1992 for reprinting in Irving Horowitz (Ed.), 35th Anniversary Edition of Society (Jan./Feb., 1998).
54. Neil Gilbert. “From Entitlements to Incentives: The Shifting Philosophy of Social Protection,” International Social Security Review (March 1992) (in French, Spanish, and German).
53. Neil Gilbert. “Social Constraints on Primary Prevention: The Case of Child Abuse Prevention,” in Hans-Uwe Otto and Gaby Flosser (Eds.), How to Organize Prevention: Political, Organizational, and Professional Challenges to Social Services (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1992).
52. Neil Gilbert. “My Turn,” Violence Update, (January 1992).
51. Neil Gilbert. “Foreword” to Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy by Michael Sherraden.
50. Neil Gilbert. “Social Responsibility and Social Accounting: Time for a New Ledger,” The Responsive Community (Winter 1992/93).
49. Neil Gilbert. “The Phantom Epidemic of Sexual Assault,” The Public Interest, (Spring 1991).
Reprinted in Hadley Smith (Ed.), Reading and Writing in the Academic Community (Prentice-Hall Inc., forthcoming);
Katherine Bartlett, Gender and Law (Little Brown, forthcoming); and
Violence Against Women (San Diego: Greenhaven, 1994);
Cynthia Hardy, Rape and the Criminal Justice System (Dartmouth Publishing).
48. Neil Gilbert. “Changing Structures for the Delivery of Social Services in the United States: Decentralization, Privatization, and Commercialism,” in Testing the Limits of Social Welfare Adaptation: Nine International Perspective s (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989).
47. Neil Gilbert. “Privatization of Social Welfare and Aging,” Nmenkin to Koyou ( Japanese Journal of Pensions and Employment, 1989).
46. Neil Gilbert. “Sexual Abuse Prevention Training: Issues of State Intervention,” in Joe Hudson and Burt Galloway (Eds.), The State as Parent (Dordrecht: Kluwer Publications, 1989).
45. Neil Gilbert. “Teaching Children To Prevent Sexual Abuse,” The Public Interest (Fall 1988).
Reprinted in Current Municipal Problems, 15:4 (1989).
44. Neil Gilbert and Ailee Moon, “Analyzing Welfare Effort: An Appraisal of Comparative Methods,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 7:2 (1988).
43. Neil Gilbert. “Caring for Children: The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform,” Society/Transaction (March/April 1987).
Reprinted in Ray C. Rist (Ed.), Policy Issues for the 1990s: Policy Studies Review. Annual Vol. 9 (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1989).
42. Neil Gilbert. “The Welfare State Adrift,” Social Work (July/August 1986).
41. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht, “Social Planning-Community Organization: Overview,” in Encyclopedia of Social Work (18th edition) (New York: NASW, 1986).
40. Neil Gilbert. “The Commercialization of Social Welfare,” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (December 1985).
39. Neil Gilbert. “The Reorganization of Social Services: Trends in Finance and Regulation,” Policy Notes (Fall 1985).
38. Neil Gilbert. “Moral Objections to Welfare for Profit: A Reply,” Journal of Social Policy (July 1984).
37. Neil Gilbert. “Welfare for Profit: Moral, Empirical, and Theoretical Perspectives,” Journal of Social Policy (January 1984).
36. Neil Gilbert. “In Support of Domesticity: A Neglected Family Policy Option,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Summer 1983).
35. Neil Gilbert. “Social Security in Developing Countries: Health Care Alternatives for the Rural Sector,” in Helen Wallace and G. B. Ebrahim (Eds.), Maternal and Child Health Around the World (New York: Macmillan, 1982).
34. Neil Gilbert. “Further Thoughts on Primary Prevention - Author Responds,” Social Work, 27:6 (November 1982).
33. Neil Gilbert. “Policy Issues in Primary Prevention,” Social Work (July 1982).
32. Neil Gilbert. “The Plight of Universal Social Services,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Spring 1982).
31. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “A Fair Share for the Aged: Title XX Allocation Patterns 1976-1980,” Research on Aging, 4:1 (March 1982).
30. Neil Gilbert. “The Future of Welfare-Capitalism,” Society/Transaction (Sept./Oct. 1981).
29. Neil Gilbert, Harry Specht and David Lindeman. “Social Service Planning Cycles: Ritualism or Rationalism,” Social Service Review (September 1981).
28. Stephanie FallCreek and Neil Gilbert. “The Aging Network in Transition: Problems and Prospects,” Social Work (May 1981).
27. Neil Gilbert. “The Design of Community Planning Structures,” Social Service Review (December 1979).
26. Neil Gilbert. “An Initial Agenda for Family Policy,” in Neil Gilbert (Ed.), Social Work: Special Issue on Family Policy, 24:6 (November 1979).
25. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Title XX Planning by Area Agencies on Aging: Efforts, Outcomes, and Policy Implications,” The Gerontologist (June 1979).
24. Neil Gilbert. “The Transformation of Social Services,” Social Service Review (December 1977).
Reprinted in James Burke, et al. (Eds.), Social Policy and Social Service (Lexington, MA: Ginn & Co., 1980); and
Louis Cheng (Ed.), Towards the 1980s: Readings in Social Work (Singapore, University of Singapore 1980).
23. Neil Gilbert. “Editorial Board Membership—Comments,” American Psychologist (December 1977).
22. Neil Gilbert. “The Search for Professional Identity,” Social Work (September 1977).
21. Neil Gilbert. “The Burgeoning Social Service Payload,” Transaction/Society (May/June 1977).
20. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Process vs. Task in Social Planning,” Social Work (May 1977).
19. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Quantitative Aspects of Coordination: Is More Better?” Administration in Social Work (Spring 1977).
18. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Social Planning and Community Organization,” in Encyclopedia of Social Work (17th edition) (New York: NASW, 1977).
17. Neil Gilbert. “Alternative Forms of Social Protection for Developing Countries,” Social Service Review, 50:3 (September 1976).
16. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Advocacy and Professional Ethics,” Social Work, 21:4 (July 1976).
Reprinted in Fred Cox, et al., Strategies of Community Organization (3rd edition) (Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, 1979).
15. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht, “Picking Winners: Federal Discretion and Local Experiences as Bases for Planning Grant Allocations,” Public Administration Review, 34:6 (November/December 1974).
14. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Socio-Political Correlates of Community Action: An Analysis of Conflict, Political Integration and Citizen Influence,” Sociological Review Monographs, No. 21, Sociology of Community Action (December 1974).
13. Neil Gilbert, Harry Specht and Charlane Brown. “Demographic Correlates of Citizen Participation: Race, Size, and Citizen Influence,” Social Service Review (December 1974).
12. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “The Incomplete Profession,” Social Work, 19:6 (November 1974).
Reprinted in Harry Specht and Ann Vickery (Eds.), Integrating Methods of Social Work Practice (London: Allen Unwin, 1977).
11. Neil Gilbert, Armin Rosenkranz and Harry Specht, “Dialectics of Social Planning,” Social Work (April 1973).
10. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Institutional Racism and Educational Policy,” Journal of Social Policy (January 1973).
9. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. “Institutional Racism,” Urban and Social Change Review, 6:1 (Fall 1972).
8. Neil Gilbert. “Assessing Service Delivery Methods: Some Unanswered Questions,” Welfare in Review (May/June 1972).
7. Neil Gilbert and Joseph W. Eaton. “Who Speaks for the Poor? Research Report,” Journal of the American Institute of Planners (November 1970).
Reprinted in Warren Bennis, et al., The Planning of Change (3rd edition) (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976).
6. Neil Gilbert and Joseph Eaton. “Favoritism as a Strategy in Race Relations,” Social Problems (Summer 1970).
Reprinted in Jack Rothman, Issues in Race and Ethnic Relations (Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, 1976).
5. Joseph Eaton and Neil Gilbert. “Racial Discrimination and Diagnostic Differentiation,” in Roger Miller (Ed.), Race, Research, and Reason (New York: National Association of Social Workers, 1969).
4. Neil Gilbert. “Maximum Feasible Participation? A Pittsburgh Encounter,” Social Work (July 1969).
3. Neil Gilbert. “Neighborhood Coordinator: Advocate or Middleman?” Social Service Review (June 1969).
2. Neil Gilbert. “Who's Got the Poor?” The Pittsburgh Point (September 12, 1968).
1. Norman Johnson, Robert Wyer, and Neil Gilbert. “Quality Education and Integration: An Exploratory Study,” Phylon (Fall 1967).

Op Ed Articles

Neil Gilbert, DEI Isn’t Dead, It’s Mutating, Washington Examiner, Sept.3, 2026 link
Neil Gilbert, Performative activism: From Tinseltown to the Halls of Ivy Washington Examiner March 07, 2023 link
Douglas Besharov and Neil Gilbert " The hidden cost of means-tested government ¬benefits,"
The Weekly Standard (Sep 21, 2015), Vol. 21, No. 02
Neil Gilbert, “The Denial of Middle-Class Prosperity,” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2014.
Neil Gilbert, “Don't Work If You Don't Have To,” New York Times Opinion Pages: Room for Debate, July 6, 2011. link
Neil Gilbert, “Social Security Reform: Transform or Tweak,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 4, 2005, p. B9.
Neil Gilbert, “The Governor's Got It Half-Right,” Los Angeles Times, January 10, 1992.
Neil Gilbert, “The Campus Rape Scare,” Wall Street Journal, June 27, 1991, p. A14. Reprinted in New Times, The Daily Journal (July 14), California Monthly (Sept. 1991, revised version), The Yale Herald.
Neil Gilbert, “A Few Women Want to Speak for Both Sexes,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 1991.
Neil Gilbert and Barbara Gilbert, “The Real Welfare Beneficiaries,” The Journal of Commerce, August 9, 1990.
Neil Gilbert, “How to Rate a Social Welfare System,” Wall Street Journal, January 13, 1987, p. 30.
Neil Gilbert, “Sweden's Disturbing Family Trends,” Wall Street Journal, June 24, 1987.

Reports

Douglas Besharov, Douglas Call, Jason Scott and Neil Gilbert, Meta-Evaluation of "Do State TANF Policies Affect
Child Abuse and Neglect? " Report prepared for the Kansas Department for Children and Families. 2018.
Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. The Model Cities Program: A Comparative Analysis of Participating Cities--Process, Product, Performance and Predictions (Washington, DC: U.S. Printing Office, 1973). A report for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Neil Gilbert. Problems of Security in Low Income Rural Areas: Alternative Designs for Social Protection (Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, August 1975).

On-Line Publications

Neil Gilbert, Welfare State Theory, Oxford Bibliographies Online (peer reviewed ) www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com
Neil Gilbert, Family Policy, Oxford Bibliographies Online (peer reviewed ) www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com

Book Reviews

Sar Levitan, Garth Mangum and Robert Taggart, III, Economic Opportunity in the Ghetto in the Monthly Labor Review (October 1970).
Harold Weissman, Community Councils and Community Control in Social Work (1972).
Stephen Rose, The Betrayal of the Poor: The Transformation of Community Action and Kenneth J. and Annette C. Pollinger, Community Action and the Poor: Influence versus Social Control in a New York Community in Social Work (November 1973).
Roland Warren, Stephen Rose, and Ann Bergunder, The Structure of Social Reform in Social Service Review (December 1975).
Kirsten Gronbjerg, Mass Society and the Extension of Welfare 1960-1970 and Alicia Munnell, The Future of Social Security in Social Casework (January 1979).
Martin Bloom, Primary Prevention: The Possible Science in Social Work (1981).
J. Simenaven and D. Carroll, Singles: The New Americans in Society (1983).

Media

,Joongang Daily, May 24, 2019, Seoul, Korea Full page story on Gilbert's presentation on the Future of the Korean Welfare State
2019 Neil Gilbert, Presentation of Report Towards Family Sensitive Social Protection, 57th Session of the UN Commission for Social Development, side event February 14th, UN HQ, New York City: link
Interview The Urban Monk – Never Enough: Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit with Guest Neil Gilbert link 12/2016.
Interviewed on Michael Medved Radio Show (8/20/14)
Major Role in “Generation Baby Buster,” Award Winning Documentary Film by Terra Renton 2012. Geneva Film Festival Best Documentary Film 2012 official selection Calgary International Film Festival 2012 ! link #_=_
News Talk KGO, The Gil Grass Program (2008)
Deadline, Danish National Broadcasting, Copenhagen (2000)
Channel 5 News (1996)
Channel 5 News with Bill Sheckner (1995)
Today Show (NBC-TV 1989)
Dr. Dean Edell Show (ABC-TV)
Jane Wallace Show (Life Time-TV)
Dr. Sonnya Friedman Show (CNN-TV), CNN-TV News
Today Show (NBC-TV 1991)
California Today (KRON TV 4, 1992)
News (KPIX TV 5), News (KOTV)
Two in the Morning Show (KTVU), News (KRON TV 4)
NBC TV Special (1993)
KSOL Radio
California Times Public Affairs Radio
WBZ Radio (Boston)
WRNJ Radio (New Jersey)
KCBS Radio (Seattle)
Christian Science Monitor Radio and National Public Broadcasting

Major Invited Papers and Presentations

2021 Keynote address, Post-Pandemic Social Protection: Three Possible Futures in the United States," at the International Council on Social Welfare international conference," New Issues in Social
Protection in the Post-Covid era," 11/2/2021
2021 Lecture: Social Work PhD International Conference on "Motherhood and family policy", organised by the School of Sociology and Public Policies of Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, in partnership with the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) and the Center for
International Studies (CEI-Iscte), which took place on 11 May 2021, via ZOOM meeting.
2020 Opening Address to the International conference to celebrate 20 years of progress in enacting the National Basic Livelihood Security Act(NBLA) Korea, Sept. 7, 2020
2 2020 Lecture, The Metrics of Inequality, University of Malaga, March 9,
2020 Lecture on Family Policy, University of Granada, March 6
2020 Keynote Speech, "The Metrics of Poverty in Europe and the U.S.: Reframing the Problem,:
International Symposium on Welfare, Work and Social Inequality, the Profile Initiative "Work and Social Change" and the EU Project EUROSHIP, University of Hamburg February 20,
2019 Paper on the Future of the Korean Welfare State, Seminar on the Evolution of the Korean Welfare State, sponsored by the Korean Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) and the National Pension Services, Seoul, May 22.
2019 Keynote address, Vision 2026 Forum for Community Care, sponsored by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare and Korean Academy of Health Policy, and National Health Insurance Services, Seoul, May 21,
2019 Co-chair 6th Annual Conference and Business Meeting of the International Network for Social Policy Teaching and Research, University of Zagreb Center for Advanced Academic Studies, Dubrovnik Croatia, June 16-18.
2019 Presentation at Expert Group Meeting for Project INTEGRATE, Lilliheimer Norway Jan.29 - 31,
2019 Presentation of Report Towards Family Sensitive Social Protection, 57th Session of the UN Commission for Social Development, side event February 14th, UN HQ, New York City
2019 Lecture, OECD/UMD sponsored course on Social Policy Analysis, Paris, France June 30th-July 4 th
2018 Lecture on Research Evidence: Assessing Data at the summer program on Understanding Evidenced- Based Research sponsored by the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy, the Economics Department at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, June 14-15, Paris.
2018 Chaired of two-day expert meeting of ten international scholars convened to review my report on Family Sensitive Social Protection, which was co-sponsored by the Qatar Foundation's Doha International Family Institute (DIFI) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia(UNESCWA). Doha, Qatar 26-27 June.
2018 Paper presented at the IV International Seminar on Social Policies and the Welfare State at the University of Malaga, Spain May 23-25,.
2018 Presentation and member of organizing committee for Rigorous Impact Evaluation in Europe: A Research Conference in Honor of Alberto Martini, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin Italy May 20-22, 2018
2018 Expert Group Meeting for Project Integrate, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway May 28 -30,
2018 Public Lecture on the Modern Welfare State, Qatar University, Doha March 28, 2018
2018 Co-organizer III International Seminar on Research, Policies and Action with Migrant Minors in Melilla, Europe and the United States, UNED, Melilla, Spain April 25-27, 2018
2017 Lecture on Comparative Policy Analysis and Practical Program Evaluation: Statistical Conclusion Validity, Summer program co-sponsored by University of Maryland School of Public Policy, OECD, and Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, July 17-20.
2017 Keynote address International Conference on Current Issues in Family Policy, Malaga University, May 31 –June 2
2016 Organized International Network for Social Policy Teaching and Research, sponsored by the Department of Social Science, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Italy 10/24-26/20016.paper at the Symposium on How Social Policies Impact Family Life.
2016 Lecture on "Logic Models and Path Analysis," and "Poverty in the US and the EU: Reframing the
Problem," at the Central European University Summer Program Budapest, July 19-22.
2016 Hamburg University, Inequality Amid Abundance: What’s the Harm?” December 7th,2016.
On-line video of the lecture at: link
2015 Paper presented on the changing institutional structure of the welfare state, at the International
Seminar on Social Policies and the Welfare State, University of Andalusia, Seville Spain, November
2015 Co-organized and made panel presentation on family policy at the 2 nd Annual Business Meeting and
Symposium of the International Network for Social Policy Teaching and Research, sponsored by the
Oxford University Department of Social Policy and Oxford University Press. 2015
2014
Paper presented at the International Conference of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance, “Responses to Crises” at the University of Hamburg, November 14, 2014.
2014
Keynote Address, Conference on “The Welfare State Debate from the Perspective of the United States,” Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, October, 2, 2014, Seville, Spain.
2014
Panel Presentation, APPAM International Conference 2014, “Decline of the Middle Class Around the World,” September 30, 2014, Segovia, Spain.
2014
Presentation, International Network for Social Policy Research and Teaching, 1 st Annual Meeting, September 25-26, 2014, Madrid, Spain.
2014
Keynote Address, Southeast Asian Social Policy Association Conference, Hawaii July 24, 2014.
2014
Paper presented at the International Conference Shifting Notions of Social Citizenship: The “Two Wests,” June 11-12-13, 2014, Paris.
2013
Presentation at the International Seminar on Social Work: Future Trends in Social Work, Segovia, December 11-12, 2013.
2013
Plenary Address, Social Policy Reform in the United States at the Conference on Social Development and Social Policy: International Experiences and China’s Reform sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
2013
Paper presentation Public attitudes toward family policy: The Impact of Individual Characteristics and Welfare Regimes in 12 Countries Council of European Studies Conference, Amsterdam.
2013
April keynote address Transforming the Welfare State from Public Service to Market Regulation at a conference on The Governance of Welfare Markets, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies at Seigen University in Seigen, Germany.
2013
Public Lecture, Transformation of the Welfare State: Implications for the Role of Government at Ewha Women's University, Seoul sponsored by Social Science, Korea.
2012
Plenary address Family, Work and Government Policies in Berlin at the Die Zeit Conference on “Family and Work.”
2012
Chaired keynote session of the Conference on Improving Education through Accountability and Evaluation: Lessons from around the World in Rome sponsored by INVALSI, The World Bank, and The Atlantic Council.
2012
Public Lecture, Kyoto University Global Center on Excellence, Kyoto, Japan.
2011
Plenary Speaker, Conference on Anti-Poverty Programs in a Global Perspective Lessons from Rich and Poor Countries. Social Science Research Center, Berlin (June 20-21).
2011
Conference on Work and Welfare in Europe: New compromises or Ongoing Demise? Brussels – Belgium, June 15-17, 2011 (RECOWE).
2011
Keynote Speaker, Expert Conference on Re-forming Activation: a New Turn in Policy, University of Hamburg (March 24-25).
2010
Plenary speaker conference on “Shared Responsibility/Shared Risk” at the Center for American Progress (CAP) Washington DC (Oct.16).
2010
Panel Chair, International Social Security Association (ISSA) Research Conference, Luxembourg (29 September to 1 October).
2010
Presentation at Foundation for Law Justice and Society Conference, Gray's Inn, London.
2010
Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Welfare Reform and the New Social Contract.
2010
Oslo University College, Norway - Active Labor Policy in Hard Times.
2010
Keynote Address, Welfare to Work Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2009
APPAM Washington, D.C., Alternative Measures of Poverty.
2009
Plenary Address, Conference on Measuring Poverty, Income Inequality, and Social Exclusion: Lessons from Europe, OECD, Paris.
2009
Presentation at Oxford Workshop on Equality and Personal Responsibility Under the Social
Contract, Foundation for Law Justice and Society, Oxford University.
2009
Keynote Address, International Symposium on the International Crisis, Social Integration and Shared
Responsibility, Korean Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, Seoul.
2008
Keynote Address, Fifteenth International Research Seminar on Issues in Social Security, foundation for the International Studies of Social Security, Sigtuna, Sweden.
2008
Plenary Address Conference on Social Policies in the U.S., French Directorate of Research, Evaluation and Statistics of the Social Ministries, Paris.
2008
Paper for CINEFGO workshop on Social Policies and Citizenship Rights, Paris.
2007
Plenary Address, Conference on the Occasion of the German EU Presidency, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.
2007
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Oxford University.
2007
Sidney Ball Lecture, Oxford University.
2006
Plenary Address, International Social Work and Society Conference, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
2006
Plenary Speaker, European Regional Conference of the International Social Security Association, Vilnius.
2006
Institute for Human Science, Public lecture, Vienna.
2006
Renner Institute, Public debate with the Chief Economist for the Austrian Chamber of Labor, Vienna.
2005
Indiana University, Dept. of Political Science, Welfare State in Transition.
2005
APPAM, Washington D.C., Future of the European Welfare State.
2005
Plenary Address, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Social Policy Ministerial Forum, Paris, France.
2004
International Social Security Association General Assembly, Beijing, China.
2003
International Social Security Association Research Conference, Antwerp, Belgium.
2003
Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the Foundation for International Social Security Sigtuna, Sweden.
2001
Social Policy Reform in East-Central Europe: In A Global Perspective, Sixth Central European Forum, Institute for Human Science, Vienna, Austria.
2001
International Symposium for Sharing Productive Welfare Experience, Seoul, Korea.
2000
Organizer and Chair, Research Conference on the Changing Landscape of the Welfare State, Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.
2000
International Conference on Playing the Market Game in Social Services, University of Bielefeld, Germany
2000
Plenary Speaker, Conference on the future of the Danish Welfare State, House of Mondag, Morgen, Copenhagen.
1998
Plenary Speaker, International Social Security Association, 26th General Assembly, Marrakech.
1998
FAFO, Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Research, Oslo.
1998
Second Technical Conference on Social Security as an Instrument of Social Cohesion, International Social Security Association, Naples.
1997
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
1997
International Symposium on the Crisis of Social Citizenship, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
1996
Hastings Women's Law Journal Symposium on Welfare Reform.
1995
Beatty Lecture, McGill University.
1995
International Symposium on Models and Culture of Welfare, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
1995
International Association of Administrative Science, Research Meeting on Comparative Systems of Social Security, Brussels.
1994
International Social Security Association, Research Meeting on Social Security, Vienna
1994
Women's Freedom Network, First Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
1994
American Enterprise Institute Social Policy Seminar, Washington, DC.
1994
International Conference on Child Abuse, Alice Salomon School of Social Work, Berlin.
1993
Plenary Address, Social Policy Conference, University of New South Wales.
1992
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
1990
International Symposium on Prevention Policy, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
1990
Institute of Governmental Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
1989
NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Child Welfare and State Intervention, Acquafredda, Italy.
1989
University of Southern California, Stinson Lecture.
1988
Bay Area Coalition of Child Abuse Councils.
1987
Zellerbach Family Fund, Annual Program Meeting.
1987
League of Women Voters, Berkeley.
1987
University of Bath, England.
1987
University of Stockholm, Sweden.
1987
University of Gotenburg, Sweden.
1986
Oregon NASW Annual Conference, Keynote Address.
1986
McCormack Institute, University of Massachusetts 1985 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC.
1985
NASW Professional Symposium, Chicago.
1885
Haifa University, Israel.
1984
Testimony before Bishops Committee on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy, Berkeley.
1984
Seabury Lecture, School of Social Welfare, U.C. Berkeley.
1984
Independent Sector Research Forum, New York City.
1984
Japan College of Social Work, Tokyo and Ryukoku University, Kyoto.
1983
British Association for Social Administration, University of Kent, England.

University & Community Service

( Partial List 1983-present )
2021-22 Chair Berkeley Social Welfare Faculty
2017-present International Advisory Board, Oslo and Akershus University INTEGRATE project
2015- 22 L & S Executive Committee
2015 External reviewer Oxford University Department of Social Policy and Intervention 12/15
2007-2011
Advisory Board, The Social Contract Revisited Program, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Oxford University
2003 (winter)
Committee on Committees U.C. Berkeley, Senate Faculty
2002-2005
Committee on International Education U.C. Berkeley, Senate Faculty
1999-2001
Advisory Board on Social Security Research, International Social Security Association
1997-present
National Research Board, National Marriage Project
1997
Member, Technical Panel, International Social Security Association, Project on Social Security Reform
1996-present
Advisory Board, Stats 2100, Newsletter of the Statistical Assessment Service
1994-96
Member, Executive Session on New Paradigms for Child Protective Services John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1994-95
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Department of Psychology U.C. Berkeley, Graduate Division
1992-95
Committee on Fellowships and Graduate Scholarships
1993-present
Chair, Board of Directors, Seneca Center
1991-93
Professional Advisory Board, Seneca Center
1987-95
Member, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees The Head-Royce School
1990-91
Member, Divisional Council U.C. Berkeley, Senate Faculty
1989-90
Member, Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs U.C. Statewide Senate Committee
1987-89
Member and Chair, Discipline Screening Committee for Fulbright Fellowships
1987-90
Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects U.C. Berkeley, Senate Faculty
1990-91 1989-90 1987-89
Graduate Council, Senate Faculty, U.C. Berkeley Chair Vice Chair Member
1989-90 1983-85 1987-88
Member, Executive Committee
School of Social Welfare
U.C. Berkeley
1985-86
Member, Organized Research Unit Review Committee U.C. Berkeley, Senate Faculty
1984-85
Chair of the Faculty School of Social Welfare U.C. Berkeley
1983-88
Chairman, Doctoral Program School of Social Welfare U.C. Berkeley
1983-85
Committee on Privilege and Tenure U.C. Berkeley, Senate Faculty
U.N. Presentation 2019