All workshops (except when noted) will be held on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:20pm in Room 224 at the Harris School of Public Policy, 1155 E. 60th Street.
This is a brownbag workshop series except when otherwise noted.
Questions should be directed to CHPPP Associate Director, Laurel Spindel, ljspinde@uchicago.edu.
The Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential is one of the core intellectual activities of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. It is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, post docs, and faculty whose work concerns behavior, health, and well-being across the lifespan and the ways in which technology and public policy shape human potential and achievement. The Workshop/Working group has active members in the areas of the social, behavioral, health, and policy sciences.
The Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential alternates between two types of sessions. Not only do we regularly invite outside speakers for a traditional "workshop" presentation, but we also provide a forum for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students to present research-in-progress in order to receive critical and constructive feedback.
Fall 2012 Workshops
| October 2 | Maria Rosales, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy and CHPPP Dissertation Fellow, will present, "Family Investment Responses to Childhood Health Conditions: Intra-Family Allocation of Resources." |
| October 9 | Brian Melzer, Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, will present, "Spillovers from Costly Credit: The Effects of Payday Lending on Food Stamp Usage and Child Support Payments." Co-Sponsored with the University of Chicago Urban Network; lunch will be provided. |
| October 16 | Janna Johnson, Postdoctoral Scholar, NORC, will present, "Does Moving Kill? The Effect of Migration on Older-Age Mortality." |
| October 23 | No Workshop |
| October 29 EVENT CANCELLED | EVENT CANCELLED. SPEAKER UNABLE TO TRAVEL FROM EAST COAST DUE TO HURRICANE. Clancy Blair, Professor of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Devleopment, NYU, will present, "Stress, Poverty, and the Development of Executive Functions in Children." Co-Sponsored with Ounce of Prevention Fund and Department of Psychology Related Paper 1 Related Paper 2 Related Paper 3 EVENT CANCELLED. |
| October 30 Harris School, Rm. 140C | Susan Levine, Stella M. Rowley Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, will present, "Individual Differences in Mathematical Development During the Preschool Years: Effects of Input Variations." Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education Related Paper 1 Related Paper 2 |
| November 6 | No Workshop-APPAM Conference |
| November 13 | Lorraine Mazerolle, Professor; Rebecca Wickes, Lecturer; and Suzanna Ramirez, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland, will present, "The Australian Community Capacity Study (ACCS): Showcasing Research from a Longitudinal Study of Neighborhood Processes." Related Papers |
| November 20 | No Workshop |
| November 27 | Alicia Menendez, Research Associate (Associate Professor), Harris School of Public Policy, will present, "The Economic Consequences of Dealth in South Africa." |
| December 4 Rosenwald, Rm. 015 | Please note change in location. Sara Goldrick-Rab, Associate Professor of Education Policy Studies and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison" Need-Based Financial Aid and College Persistence: Experimental Evidence from Wisconsin" Co-Sponsored with Workshop on Education |
Winter 2013 Workshops
| January 22 Harris School, Rm. 140C | CANCELLED Ariel Kalil, Professor, Harris School of Public Policy; Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, will present, "Diverging Destinies: Maternal Education and the Developmental Gradient in Time with Children." Co-Sponsored with Workshop on Education CANCELLED |
| January 29 | CANCELLED Reed Stevens, Professor, Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, will present, Why Early Learning Research Needs A Substantive Ethnographic Branch." CANCELLED |
| February 5 | Ellen Wartella, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Communication, Northwestern University, will present "Educational Screen Media in the Lives of Babies and Preschoolers." Related Paper |
| February 12 Harper, Rm. 130 | Please note change in location. Douglas H. Clements, Kennedy Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning and Professor, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, will present, "Math Lessons from Research?" Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education |
| February 19 Harper, Rm. 130 | Please note location change. David Barner, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, will present, "Language, Procedures, and Conceptual Change." Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education |
| February 20 Wednesday 4-5:30pm Harris School Lecture Hall, Rm. 143 | *Special Workshop Session* PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL TIME, DAY AND LOCATION Clancy Blair, Professor of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Devleopment, NYU, will present, "Stress, Poverty, and the Development of Executive Functions in Children." Co-Sponsored with Ounce of Prevention Fund and Department of Psychology Related Paper 1 Related Paper 2 Related Paper 3 |
| February 26 | Pedro Bernal, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy; Dissertation Fellow, CHPPP, will present, "Health Insurance and Hospitalization: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Seguro Popular." |
| March 5 | Flavio Cuhna, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, will present, "Eliciting Maternal Beliefs about the Technology of Skill Formation." |
| March 12 Harris School, Rm. 140c | PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION Amy Claessens, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, will present "Understanding Elementary School Disengagement: Maternal Depression and Children’s School Attendance." |
Spring 2013 Workshops
| April 2 Stuart Hall, Rm. 104 | Please note change in location. Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Temple University, will present, "How Adolescents Make Decisions: New Insights from Behavioral and Brain Science." Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education |
| April 9 | Julie Berry Cullen, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego, will present, "Coming of Age: Timing of Adolescence and Gender Identity Formation." |
| April 16 | Elise Chor, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy and CHPPP Pre-Dissertation Fellow, will present, "Public Preschool and Families' Child Care Decisions: A Natural Experiment in Australia." |
| April 23 | Christine Percheski, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, will present, "Family Structure, Health Insurance, and Children's Well-being in the U.S." |
| April 30 | Pia Britto, Assistant Professor, Child Study Center, Yale University, will present, "Early Childhood Development: A Promise Waiting to be Fulfilled." Related papers and presentation slides. |
| May 7 | Heather Hill, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, will present, "Income Instability During Childhood." |
| May 14 Harris School, Rm. 140C | *Please note change in location.* Susan Dynarski, Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education, and Department of Economics, University of Michigan, will present, "Stand and Deliver: Lottery-Based Estimates of the Effect of Charter Schools on College Preparation, Entry and Choice." Dynarski's co-authored report on Boston Charter schools, released May 22, 2013. Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education and the University of Chicago Urban Network |
| THURSDAY May 16 NORC, Rm. 232/233 | *Special Workshop Session* Please note change in location and day. Kjell Salvanes, Professor of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, will present, "A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long-Run Outcomes of Children." Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop |
| May 21 | Alejandro Ome, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy and CHPPP Dissertation Fellow, will present, "Identifying Good Teachers: Evidence from Teachers' Test Scores in Colombia." |
| THURSDAY May 23 NORC, Rm. 232/233 | *Special Workshop Session* Please note change in location and day. Sandra Black, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs and Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, will present, "This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout." Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop |
| May 28 | No Workshop |
| June 4 | Patricia Ritter, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy and CHPPP Pre-Dissertation Fellow, will present, "The Effect of Cell Phone and Internet Access on Labor Market Outcomes in Rural Villages in Peru." |
