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Center for Human Potential and Public Policy

Funding Opportunities

	In most years, all of the following are available: Faculty Development Awards Research Incubator Award Human Potential Conference Award Post-Doctoral "Topping Off" Award Dissertation and Pre-Dissertation Awards Student Travel Awards Irving B. Harris Prize for Outstanding Honors Paper on Child and Family Policy

Faculty Development Awards

This award supports promising faculty members in the early years of their careers who are engaged in innovative research on achievement, health and well-being across the lifespan. This award provides support for research assistance, data acquisition, travel, or for salary support.

2010-11 Award Recipients:

• Professor Ioana Marinescu, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, for her research on the effect of job loss on divorce.
• Professor Alicia Menendez, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, for her research in South Africa on reciprocal relationship between socioeconomic status and health status.

2009-10 Award Recipients:

• Professor Amy Claessens, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, for her research on early school achievement and later success.

2008-09 Award Recipients:

• Professor Ofer Malamud, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, for his research on the effect of home computer use on child outcomes.
• Professor Ioana Marinescu, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, for her research on the causes and consequences of job mobility.

Research Incubator Award

This award will provide funds to a group of at least two people who are interested in developing a research proposal for funding. The purpose of the award is to help "jump start" a grant proposal. Such an award could allow the team to hire a student to conduct a review of the literature or preliminary data analysis, invite a consultant for a day to brainstorm about ideas, or perhaps hold a one day retreat for the research group.

2007-08 Award Recipients:

• Professor Judith Levine, School of Social Service Administration, for her book project, Reaching for the Bottom Rung: Low-Income Women's Climb into the Labor Market before and after Welfare Reform.
• Professor Tomas Philipson, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, for his book project with Anupam B. Jena, Health and Economic Inequality in the United States.

Human Potential Conference Award

This award will provide $8,000 to faculty scholars organizing a conference related to one of the Center's program areas.

2007-08 Award:
Professor Robert Michael to help support the NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference.
View the conference agenda & papers.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship "Topping Off" Awards

This award will be offered to faculty to supplement the salary of, or provide benefits for, a current or incoming post-doctoral student whose research supports the Center's mission. Depending on availability, the award will range between $10,000 and $15,000.

Dissertation and Pre-Dissertation Awards

The Center will offer a select number of $5,000 dissertation awards and $2,500 pre-dissertation awards to Harris School doctoral students on an annual basis.  View the application instructions (PDF).

2011-2012 Award Recipients

• Dissertation Awards:
  • Chloe Hutchinson-Gibbs, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research on the impact of full-day kindergarten on educational outcomes.
  • Javaeria Qureshi, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research on the spillover effects of oldest sister's education on younger siblings' learning outcomes, and the impact of school quality on student achievement.
• Pre-Dissertation Awards:
  • Alejandro Ome, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for his research on the effect of meritocracy for teachers in Columbia on student outcomes; on the effect of parental assessments of children's ability on school choice; and on how parental accuracy in assessing children's ability.
  • Maria Fernanda Rosales Reuda, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research on the mechanisms by which an specific early childhood intervention influences childhood outcomes; and on the impact of disability in early childhood on intra-family investments and on family's future fertility decisions.

2010-2011 Award Recipients (Fall 2010 RFP):

• Dissertation Award:
  • Guadalupe Bedoya, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research on heterogeneity in school outcomes under conditional cash transfers.
• Pre-Dissertation Awards:
  • Javaeria Qureshi, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research projects on the impact of school quality on student achievement, and intra-household school choice in rural Pakistan..
  • Jorge Ugaz, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for his research projects on children’s malnutrition and outcomes during the elementary school years and the impact of exogenous income shocks on children’s health and school outcomes, specifically, the typhoon season of 1984 in the Philippines.  Ugaz is also examining working to create a framework that would allow the estimation of the impact of parental time investment on children's cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes.

2010-2011 Award Recipients (Spring 2010 RFP):

• Dissertation Award:
  • April Yanyuan Wu, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her dissertation, The Economic Well-being of the Elderly and Public Policy.
• Pre-Dissertation Awards:
  • Jen Hao Chen, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for his research on health and the development of academic and behavioral skills in early childhood.
  • Chloe Hutchinson Gibbs, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research on the impact of full-day kindergarten, in comparison to half-day kindergarten, on educational outcomes.
  • Ana Sofia Leon Lince, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research on intergenerational transmission of skills inequality at an early age as a function of family structure in Mexico and intergenerational transmission of skills inequality as a function of the immigrant status of the family and its social networks.
  • Arianna Zanolini, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, for her research on effect of maternal investments and early childhood health disparities.

Graduate Student Travel Awards

The Center will award up to two, $500 awards each quarter. The award must be used for travel to a conference during the quarter in which it is awarded. View the application instructions (PDF).

2011-2012 Award Recipients:

• Jen Hao Chen, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, will present, "Multiple Child-Care Arrangements and Early Childhood Health" at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society.
  
• Laura Wherry, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, will present "The Impact of Medicaid Family Planning Waivers on Fertility" at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Conference.

2010-2011 Award Recipients:

• Jen Hao Chen, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy, presented "Maternal Health Behaviors during Pregnancy: Birth Weight and Early Non-Cognitive Skills" at the Association for Public Policy and Management conference.

• Michael Corey Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, presented “Reconsidering Child Care Decisions: The Share Hypothesis,” and "The Shift is Dying but Evening Work is Thriving: Primetime Work and the Work-Life Balance" at the Population Association of America Conference.

• Ana Sofia Leon Lince, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Great Expectations: Intergenerational Mobility Among Descendants of Mexican Immigrants in the US" at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association conference.

• Jorge Ugaz, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Effects of Extreme Weather Shocks during Pregnancy and Early Life on Later Health Outcomes: The Case of Philippines' Typhoons" at the Midwest International Economic Development Conference.

• Jorge Ugaz, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies presented, "The Impact of New Siblings in Two-Parent Households: More or Less Specialized Parental Time?" at the Population Association of America Conference.

• Arianna Zanolini, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Effects of Extreme Weather Shocks during Pregnancy and Early Life on Later Health Outcomes: The Case of Philippines' Typhoons" at the Midwest International Economic Development Conference.

2009-2010 Award Recipients:

• Chloe Hutchinson Gibbs, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Measuring the Impact of Full-day Kindergarten: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence" at the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness Conference.
• Nikolas Mittag, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Parental Time Use and Their Children's Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Abilities" at the International Association for Time Use Research Conference.
• Anjali Oza, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Plan B as Insurance: The Effect of Emergency Contraception on Pregnancy Termination and STIs" at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting.
• Jorge Ugaz, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "The Impact of New Siblings on Parental Time Investment: More or Less Child-Specialization?" at the International Association for Time Use Research Conference.
• Olena Verbenko, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies presented, “Strategic Corporate Philanthropy” at the Ronald Coase Institute's Workshop on Institutional Studies in Xiamen, China.
• April Yanyuan Wu, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented “Why Do So Few Elderly Take up Food Stamps?” at the Association for Public Policy and Management conference.

2008-2009 Award Recipients:

• Jen-Hao Chen, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Early Origins of Noncognitive Abilities" at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
• Haeil Jung, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "The Effects of Time in Prison on Male Ex-Prisoners' Employment and Earnings" at the Association for Public Policy and Management conference.
• Patrick Wightman, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Parental Job Loss and Children’s Educational Attainment" at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting.
• April Yanyuan Wu, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Older Women's Economic Well-Being: Income, Consumption, and Leisure Before and After Retirement" at the Association for Public Policy and Management conference.

2007-2008 Award Recipients:

• Kalina Michalska, Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, presented "Who Caused the Pain?: An fMRI investigation of Empathy and Theory of Mind in Children" at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting.
• Patrick Wightman, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Parental job loss and children's college attendance in black and white middle-class families" at the Population Association of America conference.
• April Yanyuan Wu, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, presented "Linking Social Security Retirement Benefits to Marital Status: Income and Consumption During Retirement" at the Population Association of America conference.

Irving B. Harris Prize for Outstanding Honors Paper on Child and Family Policy

The Center will award up to two, $1,000 awards for exceptional honors papers that examine topics which fall within one of the Center's three program areas.

2011 Award Recipient:

• NaYoung Rim, Master's Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, for her paper, "Sibling Influences on Teen Fertility: Using Miscarriages to Estimate Lower-Bound Causal Estimates."