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(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session
Spring 2012 Workshops and Working Groups
April 3
Wladimir Zanoni, Researcher-Postdoctoral Associate, Chapin Hall
"Child Care Subsidies and Child Development" (WG)
April 12
**Special Day, Time, and Location** THURSDAY, 12-1:20pm
NORC, Rm. 232/233
Rob Crosnoe, Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts, Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
"Mexican Immigrants and the Early Health and Development of their Children"
Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop
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April 17
Taryn Morrissey, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University
"Food Assistance and Children's Eating Patterns, Food Insecurity, and Obesity: The Influence of Local Food Prices"
April 26
Stella Flores, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education & Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
"The Effect of English Language Learner (ELL) Identification on College-Access Outcomes: The Role of Time in Program"
Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop
May 10
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
"Early Care and Education Experiences and School Readiness: The Importance of Developmental Timing and Household Resources"
Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop
May 22
Elise Chor, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Measuring the Impact of a Year of Early Education: A Natural Experiment in Australia" (WG)
Winter 2012 Workshops and Working Groups
January 10
Hoyt Bleakley, Associate Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
"Shocking Behavior: Land Lotteries in 1832 Georgia and 1901 Oklahoma and Later Life Outcomes" (W)
January 17
Javaeria Qureshi, Doctoral Student and CHPPP Dissertation Fellow, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago "Additional Returns to Investing in Girls' Education: Impact on Younger Sibling Human Capital" (WG)
January 31
Maike Luhmann, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
"The Effects of Life Circumstances on Changes in Subjective Well-Being" (WG)
February 7
Lisa Barrow, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Affiliated Scholar, Chapin Hall "Re-assessing the Value of a College Education" (W)
February 14
Daniel Kreisman, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
"The Effects of the Jeanes and Rosenwald Funds on the Black-White Gap in Education before 1930: Comparing Returns on Investments in Teachers and Schools" (WG)
February 28
Richard Steckel, Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Ohio State University
"Severe Childhood Deprivation and Wealth Accumulation: American Slaves and Post-Emancipation Blacks" (W)
March 6
Alejandro Ome, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Meritocracy for Teachers: Evidence from Colombia" (WG)
Fall 2011 Workshops and Working Groups
October 4
Katrine Loken, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, and Visiting Economist, UCSD
"Does Money Matter? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Academic Performance"
October 11
Pamela Morris, Professor of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University
"Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards: An Embedded Child & Family Study of Conditional Cash Transfers."
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October 25
Stephanie Jones, Assistant Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
"Social and Emotional Development in High Risk Contexts: Interventions to Build Executive Function, Self Regulation & Positive Behavior"
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November 1
Jane Waldfogel, Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, School of Social Work, Columbia University
"Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education"
November 8
Tama Leventhal, Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University
"Neighborhood Dynamics and Child Development"
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November 15
Special Location: **Harold Richman Conference Room, Chapin Hall**
Genevieve M. Kenny, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
"The Affordable Care Act: Implications for Children" Co-Sponsored with Chapin Hall
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November 22 CANCELLED (will be rescheduled)Sara Goldrick-Rab, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies & Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison CANCELLED "Conditional Cash Transfers and College Persistence: Evidence from a Randomized Need‐Based Grant Program"
November 29
Julian Cristia, Economist, Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank
"The Impacts of the One Laptop per Child Program: A Randomized Evaluation"
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Spring 2011 Workshops and Working Groups
April 6
Emma Adam, Associate Professor, Program on Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
"Social, Behavioral and Genetic Influences on Stress Hormone Activity in Adolescents at Risk for Emotional Disorders" (W)
April 13
Colleen Manchester, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
"Is the Clock Still Ticking? The Effect of Stop the Clock Policies on Career Outcomes in Academia" (W)
April 20
Jorge Ugaz, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Composition of Parental Time with Children in the US: Changes After the Birth of a Sibling" (WG)
May 4
Javaeria Qureshi, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Additional Returns to Investing in Girls' Education? Effects on Learning Outcomes of Younger Siblings" (WG)
May 11
Lupe Bedoya, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"School Attendance and School Dropouts under Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Jamaican Case" (WG)
May 18
Jane Leber Herr, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
"On the Endogeneity of the Timing of First Birth" (W)
May 25
Kathleen Ziol-Guest, Postdoctoral Associate Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
"Early Childhood Residential Instability and School Readiness"(W)
Winter 2011 Workshops and Working Groups
January 13
Laura Wherry, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from a Policy Discontinuity" (WG)
January 20
Jen Hao Chen, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Early-Life Health Conditions and Children's Skills" (WG)
February 10
Arianna Zanolini, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Early Childhood Stimulation in Jamaica: An Analysis of the Effects on the Labor Market" (WG)
February 17
Phillip B. Levine, Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor in Economics, Wellesley College"Early Non-Marital Fertility and the 'Culture of Despair'" (W)
Co-Sponsored with the Section of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
February 24
Pedro Bernal, Nikolas Mittag, and Javaeria Qureshi, Doctoral Students, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"What Makes a Good School? Do Good Schools Improve Achievement? Evidence from ECLSK" (WG)
March 3
Ana Sofia Leon, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Great Expectations: Educational Mobility of Immigrant Descendants in the U.S." (WG)
March 10
Mimi Engel, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
"How Important is Where you Start? Early Mathematics Knowledge and Later School Success" (W)
Fall 2010 Workshops and Working Groups
October 7
David Figlio, Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
"Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers" (W)
October 14
Chloe Hutchinson Gibbs, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"The Impact of Full-day Kindergarten: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence" (WG)
October 21
Michael Corey, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
"Time for Work, but Time for Health: Effects of Work Timing on Care" (WG)
October 28
Rachel Gordon, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
"An Assessment of the Validity of a Widely-Used Measure of Child Care Quality in a National Sample of Four-Year-Olds" (W)
November 4
NO WORKSHOP (APPAM Conference)
November 10
Special Day and Location:
**WEDNESDAY, 10:30-11:50 a.m., Room 401B**
Magne Mogstad, Research Fellow, Statistics Norway
"No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes" (W)
November 11
Special Day, Time and Location:
**THURSDAY, 12:00-1:20 p.m., Room 140C**
Janet Currie, Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics, Columbia University
"Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences" (W)
Related paper for download
Co-Sponsored with Demography Workshop
November 18
Susanna Loeb, Professor of Education, Stanford University
"The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools"(W)
Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education
November 23
Special Day and Time
**TUESDAY, 3:30-5:00 p.m.**
Magne Mogstad, Research Fellow, Statistics Norway
“Internet Pornography: Catharsis or Catalyst for Sexual Crime?†(W)
Co-Sponsored with Public Policy and Economics Workshop
November 25
NO WORKSHOP (Thanksgiving)
December 2
Daniel Kreisman, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Estimating the Black-White Gap in Early Language Acquisition: The Source and Timing of Divergence" (WG)
Spring 2010 Workshops and Working Groups
April 1
NO WORKSHOP
April 5
Special Day, Time and Location:
***MONDAY, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Harper Room 140***
Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education
Daniel Kreisman, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"A First Look at the Race Gap in Early Language Acquisition: Evidence from Early Head Start" (WG)
April 8
Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education
Micere Keels, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development
"Ethnic Group Divergence in Children's Early Cognitive Development" (W)
April 15
Elizabeth Gershoff, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
"From Oportunidades to the Harlem Children's Zone: The Research Base for Novel US and International Poverty Reduction Programs" (W)
April 22
Heather Hill, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration
"Getting a Job is Only Half the Battle: Maternal Job Loss and Child Classroom Behavior in Low-Income Families" (W)
April 29
Amy Claessens, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Summer Child Care Experiences and Child Well Being for Young School-Age Children" (W)
May 4
Special Day, Time and Location:
***TUESDAY, 12:00-1:20 p.m., Room 140C***
Co-Sponsored with Demography Workshop
Joshua Gans, Professor of Management - Information Economics, University of Melbourne Business School
"Unusual Days in Births and Deaths" (W)
Presentation Slides
May 6
Hiro Yoshikawa, Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
"Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents of the Second Generation" (W)
May 13
Stefanie DeLuca, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
"Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program" (W)
May 20
Ofer Malamud, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital" (W)
May 27
TWO WORKSHOPS:
**10:30-11:50am, Woodlawn Room**
Kevin Roy, Associate Professor, Family Science Department, University of Maryland
"Taking Care of My Own: The Life Course of Low Income Men on the Margins of Work and Families" (W)
Professor Roy will be drawing his talk from three of his papers:
Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
**3:30-5:00pm, Rm. 140B**
Co-Sponsored with Health Economics Workshop**
Laura Wherry, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"The Role of Medicaid on SSI-Disability Participation." (WG)
June 3
Bessie Wilkerson, Director of Educational Research, Harlem Children's Zone
"Evaluation from the Inside at the Harlem Children's Zone" (W)
Listen to the talk >>
Winter 2010 Workshops and Working Groups
January 7
NO WORKSHOP
January 14
Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education
Alejandro Ome, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Understanding the Effect of Assessed Ability on School Choice" (WG)
January 21
Lauren Rich, Senior Researcher, Chapin Hall Center for Children
"Mothers' Self-Employment and Behavioral Outcomes Among Young Children" (W)
January 28
Arianna Zanolini, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy Studies (co-authors: Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago, and Pia Pinger, University of Mannheim)
"Maternal Capabilities and Child Birth Weight: An Analysis of the Channels for Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality" (WG)
February 4
NO WORKSHOP
February 11
TWO WORKSHOPS:
***10:30-11:50 a.m., Room 224***
Danielle Crosby, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"Linkages between Family Benefit Use and the Early Development of Immigrant Children" (W)
***12:00-1:20 p.m., Room 140C***
Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop
Bhashkar Mazumder, Executive Director, Chicago Census Research Data Center and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Frank F. Limehouse, Economist and Administrator, Chicago Census Research Data Center
"Research Opportunities at the Chicago RDC" (W)
February 18
Melanie Guldi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Mount Holyoke College
"Do Pregnant Teens Respond to Improved Opportunities? An Evaluation of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (W)
February 22
Special Day, Time and Location:
***MONDAY, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Harper Room 130***
Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education
Matthew Steinberg, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Safety in Chicago Schools: Do Organizational Structures Mediate Community Influences?" (WG)
February 25
Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Demography
Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
"Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth" (W)
March 4
Ioana Marinescu, Assistant Professor, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"HIV, Wages and Labor Productivity" (W)
Fall 2009 Workshops and Working Groups
October 1
NO WORKSHOP
October 8
***Special time: 9-10:20 a.m.***
Jen-Hao Chen, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
"Getting a Head Start on Non-Cognitive Abilities: Maternal Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy and Child Temperament" (WG)
October 15
NO WORKSHOP
October 22
CHPPP Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society
(5:00-7:30 p.m., Hughes Auditorium, Northwestern University, Chicago Campus)
Heidi Schweingruber, Deputy Director, Board on Science Education, National Research Council
"The State of Science Education: A Local and National Perspectiveâ€
October 29
Aaron Sojourner, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
“Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR†(W)
Co-sponsored with the Workshop on Education
November 5
NO WORKSHOP (APPAM Conference)
November 12
Lia Fernald, Associate Professor, Public Health Nutrition, Community Health & Human Development, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley
"Ten-year Impact of Oportunidades –Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program – On Child Growth, Cognition, Language and Behavior"(Related Paper) (W)
November 19
April Wu, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
"Why Do So Few Elderly Use Food Stamps?" (WG)
November 26
NO WORKSHOP (Thanksgiving)
December 3
***Special time and location: 12:00-1:20 p.m., Room 140C***
Co-sponsored with the Demography Workshop
Peter Brandon, Broom Professor of Social Demography, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College
"Single Mothers and Minimum Wages: Preliminary Findings" (W)
Fall 2009 Workshops and Working Groups
Spring 2009 Workshops and Working Groups
(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session
April 9
David Deming, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University
"Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start"
Co-sponsored by the Workshop on Education
April 16
Deborah Gross, Professor, Leonard and Helen Stulman Endowed Chair in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Johns Hopkins University "Efficacy and Dissemination of a Parenting Program in Early Child Care Centers Serving Low-Income Ethnic Minority" (paper 1) (paper 2)
April 23
Jane Leber Herr, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
"Opt-Out Rates at Motherhood across High-Education Career Paths: Selection Versus Work Environment"
April 30
Rebekah Levine Coley, Associate Professor, Counseling, Developmental, andEducational Psychology Department, Boston College
"Child Care and the Development of Behavior Problems among Economically Disadvantaged Children in Middle Childhood"
May 7
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Fragile Fatherhood: What Being a Daddy Means in Lives of Low-Income Unmarried Men" (W)
Co-sponsored with Demography Workshop
May 14
Robert Crosnoe, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
"Mexican Immigrants, Their Children, and American Schools"
Background Reading: Mexican Roots, American School, Chapter 1
May 20
Rachel Garrett, Doctoral Candidate and IES Fellow, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
"Educational Associations with Multilingualism"
Co-sponsored by the Workshop on Education
May 21
Katherine Magnuson, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Earnings, Transfers, and Living Arrangements in Low-Income Families: Who Pays the Bills"
May 27
Holly Craig, Professor of Education and Director, University Center for the Development of Language and Literacy, University of Michigan
"African American Students Who Beat the Odds: The Impact of Dialect on Reading Achievement"
Co-sponsored by the Workshop on Education
May 28
Lindsey Leininger, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Understanding Persistent Differences in Insurance Coverage between Poor Adolescents and Their Younger Peers"
Winter 2009 Workshops and Working Groups
(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session
January 12
Maria Kefalas, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; Director, Institute for Violence Research and Prevention, Saint Joseph’s University
“Hollowing out the Middle: How Young People Became the Rural Heartland's Declining Resource” (related paper) (W)
January 22
Wladimir Zanoni, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
“The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on the Labor Supply of Low Income Women in the City of Chicago” (WG)
January 26
Jacob Vigdor, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
"Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement" (W)
January 27
Jane Elliott, Research Director, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
"Using the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study to Understand Women's Family Life and Employment Behaviour: The Value of Longitudinal Data" (W)
February 2
Chloe Hutchinson Gibbs and Matthew Steinberg, Doctoral Candidates, Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago
“Adolescent Time Use: Exploring the Role of Out-of-School Time in Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes” (WG)
February 19
Haeil Jung, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Does Incarceration Impair the Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes of Men? Evidence from the NLSY79" (WG)
February 23
Rachel Dunifon, Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
"Parenting in Vain?: Stepfather Influences on Early Transitions to Parenthood" (W)
March 9
Thomas McDade, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
"Beyond the Gradient: An Integrative Anthropological Perspective on Social Stratification, Stress, and Health" (W)
March 10
Kjetil Telle, Senior Researcher, Statistics Norway
"Job Loss and Crime: Using Individual Register Data for Norway to Estimate the Effect of Plant Closure on Crime" (W)
Co-sponsored with the Public Policy and Economics Workshop.
Fall 2008 Workshops and Working Groups
(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session
October 2
Christina Gibson-Davis, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and Family Policy, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
"Towards a Unifying Theory: Understanding the Associations of Earnings with Marriages and Births" (W)
October 16
Leah Doane, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago
"Loneliness, Stress, and Depression in Emerging Adulthood: Physiological Pathways" (WG)
October 23
April Wu, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
"Older Women's Economic Well-Being: Income, Consumption, and Leisure Before and After Retirement" (WG)
October 30
Mario Small, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago
"Is Chicago an Outlier? Organizational Density in Poor Urban Neighborhoods" (W)
Co-sponsored with Workshop on Education
November 13
Patrick Wightman, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
"Parental Job Loss & Children's Developmental Outcomes" (WG)
November 20
CHPPP Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society
Robert W. Fairlie, Professor, Department of Economics, The University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Educational Consequences of the Digital Divide”
December 4
Kalina Michalska, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago
"Empathic Responses in Adolescents With Aggressive Conduct Disorder- Functional MRI Investigations" (WG)
Spring 2008 Workshops and Working Groups
(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session
April 3
Emily Oster, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics (U of C)
"Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa" (W)
April 10
Angela Fertig, Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, University of Georgia
"The Connection Between Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: Inspecting the Mechanisms" (W)
April 17
No Workshop
(PAA Conference)
April 24
Ofer Malamud, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy and Cristian Pop-Eleches, Assistant Professor, SIPA and Economics Department, Columbia University, will present work-in-progress
"The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes" (WG)
May 1
Dario Maestripieri, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development (U of C)
Luigi Zingales, Professor, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Paola Sapienza, Associate Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Gender, Hormones, and Risk Aversion in MBA Students" (W)
May 8
Julia Henly and Susan Lambert, Associate Professors, School of Social Service Administration
"Building Predictability into Low Wage Jobs: Early Results from the Work Scheduling Study" (WG)
Related Papers:
"Nonstandard Work and Child-Care Needs of Low-Income Parents"
"Making a Difference for Hourly Employees"
May 15
Matt Stagner, Executive Director, Chapin Hall
"An Introduction to Chapin Hall: Topics, People, and Data" (WG)
May 16
CHPPP Conference on Health and Attainment Over the Life Course: Reciprocal Pathways from Before Birth to Old Age
Chicago, IL (co-sponsored with the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS), the Chapin Hall Center for Children, and Cells to Society (C2S): The Center of Social Disparities and Health, Northwestern University)
May 19
Special Session: Joint with the Demography Workshop
MONDAY, 3:00-4:30p.m., Harris School, Room 140C
Timothy Smeeding, CHPPP Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Professor of Economics and Public Administration and Director, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University
"Differences in Social Transfer Support and Poverty for Immigrant Families with Children: Lessons from the LIS" (W)
May 22
Marcia Carlson, CHPPP Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Columbia University
"The Consequences of Multi-Partnered Fertility for Parental Involvement and Relationships" (W)
May 29
NO WORKSHOP
(NLSY97 Tenth Year Anniversary Conference)
June 5
Jeff Grogger, Professor, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
TBA (W)
Winter 2008 Workshops and Working Groups
(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session
January 10
Dan Black, Professor, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"The ABCs of the NLSY" (WG)
January 17
Hoyt Bleakley, Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business (U of C)
"The Effects of English Proficiency among Childhood Immigrants: Are Hispanics Different?" (W)
Supplemental Paper: "The Effects of English Proficiency on Economic and Social Outcomes: Summary of Evidence from Childhood Immigrants in the U.S. Census"
January 24
Ioana Marinescu, Assistant Professor, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Labor Market Shocks and Marriage Duration" (W)
January 31
Alicia Menendez, Research Associate, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence From South Africa" (W)
February 7
No Workshop
(CHPPP Post-Doctoral Fellows Exchange Week at the National Poverty Center)
February 14
Isaac McFarlin, CHPPP Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas
"Help or Hindrance? The Effects of College Remediation on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes" (W)
February 21
Robert Kaestner, Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs and Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement" (W)
February 28
No Workshop
March 6
Jen Hao Chen, Doctoral Candidate, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Accounting for the Differences in Violent Behavior Between Immigrant and Native Youths" (WG)
March 13
Student Work-in-Progress Forum
Postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students, and master's students are invited to bring questions, ideas, and pieces of work-in-progress to share with, and get feedback from, other students working on health, achievement, and well-being across the lifespan. (This Working Group session is limited to students.)
Fall 2007 Workshops and Working Groups
(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session
October 4
Rebecca Ryan, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow
"Associations Between Unwed Mothers’ Private Safety Nets and Children's Early Behavioral and Health Outcomes"
October 11
Carolina Milesi, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow
"The Role of Health in Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap"
October 18
Michael Msall, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Section Chief, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (U of C)
"Distressed Neighborhoods and Child Disability Rates: Analyses of 157,000 School Age Children in Rhode Island"
October 25
Amy Claessens, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow
"The Relationship Between Changes in Attention, Behavior, and Achievement from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade"
October 26
James R. Flynn, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Political Studies and Psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand
"Intelligence: Four Paradoxes Resolved"
November 1
Patrick Wightman, Harris School PhD student
"Parental Job Loss and Children's College Attendance in Black and White Middle-Class Families"
Rebecca Ryan, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow
"Patterns of Nonresident Father Involvement: The Role of Extended Family Relations"
November 15
Jens Ludwig, Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy (U of C)
"Anti-Depressants and Suicide"
November 20
Mari Rege, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Stavanger, Norway
"Parental Job Loss and Children's School Performance"
November 29
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
"Teachers' Subjective Evaluation of Children's Performance: Differences by Race and Gender" (co-author Ofer Malamud)
December 4
Wilawan Kanjanapan, PhD, Australian Government, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FACSIA)
"Consequences of Growing up in Welfare Dependent Families: the Australian Experience"
Spring 2007
"Child Health, Stress, and Academic Achievement"
April 10
Sam Choi, SSA, University of Chicago
"Substance Abusing Families with Co-Occurring Problems in Child Welfare: Experimenting Recovery Coaches and Matching Services to Improve Family Reunification"
April 17
E. Michael Foster, University of North Carolina
"Decomposing Racial Disparities Within and Between Public Agencies"
April 24
Guanglei Hong, University of Toronto
May 15
Karen Rudolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The Emerging Sex Difference in Adolescent Depression: Social-Contextual and Pubertal Transitions"
Fall 2006
October 3
Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania
"Self-Discipline, IQ, and Academic Achievement"
October 10
Diane Schanzenbach, University of Chicago
"Classroom Gender Composition and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment"
November 7
Bernard Weiss, University of Rochester
"Intersections of Social Ecology, Neurobehavioral Development, Environmental Contamination, and Economics"
November 28
Anthony Raden, City of Chicago, Dept. of Children and Youth Services
"Careers in Child and Family Policy"
December 5
Walter Gilliam, Yale University
"Expulsion from Preschool: Rates, Predictors, and Potential Solutions"
Spring 2006
April 18
Carolyn Cutrona & Daniel Russell, Iowa State University
"Contextual and Individual Predictors of Marital Outcomes among African American Couples"
May 9
Lisa Gennetian, MDRC
May 16
Robert LaLonde, University of Chicago
May 23
Daniel Crosby, University of Chicago
Fall 2005
October 4
Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
"Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Well-Being"
October 18
Francine D. Blau, Cornell University / Princeton University
"Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans"
November 8
Gregory Acs, Urban Institute
November 15
Maria Kefalas, St. Joseph's University
November 29
Ruby Mendenhall, University of Chicago
"Life Course and Ecological Frameworks: Tools for Policy-Relevant Research on Children and Families"
Spring 2004
April 27
Valerie Lee, University of Michigan
"Inequality at and beyond the Starting Gate: Race and Class Differences in Children's Achievement as They Begin Kindergarten and Move through First Grade"
May 11
Joshua Aronson, New York University
"Stereotypes and the Fragility of Human Competence Motivation"
May 25
Arlilne Geronimous, University of Michigan
"Deepening Pluralism: The Moral Boundaries of Building Solidarity to Eliminate Racial (Health) Inequality"
Fall 2003
October 14
Nancy Hill, Duke University
"Socioeconomic and Ethnic Variations in Parental Effects on Early Achievement"
October 28
Jeffrey Kling, Princeton University
November 11
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
"Walking the Streets of Glory: the Role of Religion in African-American Neighborhoods and Families"
November 18
Dalton Conley, New York University
December 2
Panel discussion with Ajay Chaudry, Diane Hughes, Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, and Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University
"Methodological and Conceptual Challenges to Understanding Children's Learning in Different Cultural Groups in New York City"
"Child Care Arrangements Among Low-Income Families", Ajay Chaudry
"Features of Immigrant Families", Hiro Yoshikawa
Spring 2003
April 8
Richard Fabes and Carol Martin, Arizona State University
"Beyond Acceptance and Rejection: Understanding the Role of Peers in Early Development and Adjustment"
April 22
Kirby Deater-Deckard, University of Oregon
"Parent-Child Mutuality in Early Childhood - Two Behavioral Genetic Studies"
May 6
Sean Reardon, Pennsylvania State University
"Sources of Educational Inequality: The Growth of Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Test Score Gaps in Kindergarten and First Grade"
May 13
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts
"The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values"
May 20
Marcia Carlson, Columbia University
"Do Good Partners Make Good Parents?"
Fall 2002
October 8
Rachel Dunifon, Cornell University
"Do Generous Welfare Policies Benefit Children in Single-Parent Familes?"
October 29
Elizabeth Gershoff, Columbia University
"Corporal Punishment by Parents: Effects on Children and Links to Physical Abuse"
November 19
Diane Whitmore, University of Chicago
"Would Smaller Classes Help Close the Black-White Achievment Gap?"
"The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence form Project Star"
Spring 2002
April 16
Donna Morrison, Georgetown University
"The Long-Term and Dynamic Consequences of Divorce For Children"
April 23
Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
"What Have We Learned from Twins About the Returns to Schooling?"
May 7
Andrew Fuligni, UCLA
"Family Obligation and the Transition to Young Adulthood"
May 14
Jane Miller, Rutgers University
"Factors Associated with Disenrollment from the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Evidence from NJ KidCare"
May 28
Janet Currie, UCLA
"Networks, Neighborhoods, and the Utilization ofPublicly-Funded Prenatal Care in CA"
Winter 2002
January 15
Phil Levine, Wellesley College
"The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree"
February 5
Hilary Hoynes, University of California-Davis
"The Impact of Welfare Reform on Living Arrangements"
February 19
Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin
"The Role of Noneconomic Family Resources in the Well-Being of Children"
February 26
Roland Fryer, University of Chicago
"Integrating Culture into Economics of the Winter"
March 5
Tom Dishion, University of Oregon
Fall 2001
October 5
Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington
"Child Gender and Transitions to Marriage"
October 12
E. Michael Foster, Penn State University
"The Full Costs of Improved Mental Health Services: Cost Shifting Across Child-Serving Agencies"
November 9
Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago
"Desegregation and Black Dropouts Rates"
November 16
Robert J. Willis, University of Michigan
"Subjective Probability Distributions and the Decision to Save"
November 30
Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University
"Do Effects of Welfare-to-Work Policies on Adult Economic and Child Outcomes Differ by Parents' Initial Likelihood to Be Employed?"
Spring 2001
April 13
Sydney Hans, University of Chicago
"Drugs, Mothers, and Children"
April 27
David Blau, University of North Carolina
"The Economics of Child Care"
May 4
Fredrick Morrison, Loyola University of Chicago
"Early Academic Problems and The Role of Learning-Related Social Skills"
May 11
Byron Egeland, University of Minnesota
"Home Visitation Programs and High Risk Families"
May 25
Ross Thompson, University of Nebraska
"Young Children's Understandings of Conscience and Morality"
June 1
Larry Steinberg, Temple University
"Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried as Adults?"
