Friday, May 16, 2008
8:00 A.M. 4:30 P.M.*
University Club of Chicago
76 East Monroe Street | Chicago, IL 60603
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*Please note that the conference will include a continental breakfast (8-8:25am), a plated lunch, and a cocktail reception beginning at 4:30 p.m.
This multi-disciplinary conference will bring together economists, sociologists, demographers, and developmental psychologists to discuss new research on the reciprocal pathways linking health and attainment across the lifespan. Speakers will pay careful attention to important questions such as: (a) the extent to which observed linkages can be interpreted as causal; (b) what mechanisms or processes may explain these linkages; and (c) how such linkages might vary in strength and form across different subgroups of the population. The speakers will draw from their new work using a variety of high-quality longitudinal data sets, including the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the British National Child Development Survey, and the New Zealand Dunedin Survey. The conference will also feature a policy-focused plenary session by the Chief of Staff of the Chicago Public Schools, who will discuss the interrelationships between, and policy missions of, the institutions serving low-income childrens educational and health needs in the City of Chicago.
This conference is by invitation only. For more information, contact Laurel Spindel, Associate Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy at ljspinde@uchicago.edu or 773.702.3402.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy; Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University; Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago; and Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS), University of Chicago.
