Saul D. Hoffman is Professor of Economics and Department Chair at the University of Delaware, where he has taught since 1977. He is also a core faculty associate for the Program in Women’s Studies, University of Delaware, and a research associate at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. Hoffman has published widely on welfare policy, teen pregnancy, and issues in employment and earnings. He is the author of two books on the earned income tax credit published by the W. E. Upjohn Institute; an economics textbook on women’s issues, Women and the Economy: Family, Work, and Pay, published by Addison Wesley in 2005; and By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing, published in 2006 by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. He serves on the research advisory board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
Rebecca A. Maynard is University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Program Associate at the W. T. Grant Foundation, and Affiliate Scholar at Abt Associates. She teaches courses in research methods, economics, and education policy and maintains an active research agenda focused on youth risk reduction and skills attainment. Maynard has published widely on welfare policy, educational innovation, employment and training, teenage pregnancy and parenthood, and evaluation design. Her research has appeared in a wide range of journals and has been published by a wide range of presses including the Brookings Institution Press, Urban Institute Press, the National Academy of Sciences, Russell Sage Foundation, University of Michigan Press, and University of Wisconsin Press. She has testified before Congress on welfare policy, teenage pregnancy prevention, and child care policy and has advised states and foreign governments on various aspects of social welfare policy.