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Spring 2007 Workshops
"Child Health, Stress, and Academic Achievement"

April 10Sam 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 17E. Michael Foster, University of North Carolina
"Decomposing Racial Disparities Within and Between Public Agencies"
April 24Guanglei Hong, University of Toronto
May 15Karen Rudolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The Emerging Sex Difference in Adolescent Depression: Social-Contextual and Pubertal Transitions"

Fall 2006 Workshops

October 3Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania
"Self-Discipline, IQ, and Academic Achievement"
October 10Diane Schanzenbach, University of Chicago
"Classroom Gender Composition and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment"
November 7Bernard Weiss, University of Rochester
"Intersections of Social Ecology, Neurobehavioral Development, Environmental Contamination, and Economics"
November 28Anthony Raden, City of Chicago, Dept. of Children and Youth Services
"Careers in Child and Family Policy"
December 5Walter Gilliam, Yale University
"Expulsion from Preschool: Rates, Predictors, and Potential Solutions"

Spring 2006 Workshops

April 18Carolyn Cutrona & Daniel Russell, Iowa State University
"Contextual and Individual Predictors of Marital Outcomes among African American Couples"
May 9Lisa Gennetian, MDRC
May 16Robert LaLonde, University of Chicago
May 23Daniel Crosby, University of Chicago

Fall 2005 Workshops

October 4Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
"Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Well-Being"
October 18Francine D. Blau, Cornell University / Princeton University
"Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans"
November 8Gregory Acs, Urban Institute
November 15Maria Kefalas, St. Joseph's University
November 29Ruby Mendenhall, University of Chicago
"Life Course and Ecological Frameworks: Tools for Policy-Relevant Research on Children and Families"

Spring 2004 Workshops

April 27Valerie 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 11Joshua Aronson, New York University
"Stereotypes and the Fragility of Human Competence Motivation"
May 25Arlilne Geronimous, University of Michigan
"Deepening Pluralism: The Moral Boundaries of Building Solidarity to Eliminate Racial (Health) Inequality"

Fall 2003 Workshops

October 14Nancy Hill, Duke University
"Socioeconomic and Ethnic Variations in Parental Effects on Early Achievement"
October 28Jeffrey Kling, Princeton University
November 11Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
"Walking the Streets of Glory: the Role of Religion in African-American Neighborhoods and Families"
November 18Dalton Conley, New York University
December 2Panel 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 Workshops

April 8Richard Fabes and Carol Martin, Arizona State University
"Beyond Acceptance and Rejection: Understanding the Role of Peers in Early Development and Adjustment"
April 22Kirby Deater-Deckard, University of Oregon
"Parent-Child Mutuality in Early Childhood - Two Behavioral Genetic Studies"
May 6Sean Reardon, Pennsylvania State University
"Sources of Educational Inequality: The Growth of Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Test Score Gaps in Kindergarten and First Grade"
May 13Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts
"The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values"
May 20Marcia Carlson, Columbia University
"Do Good Partners Make Good Parents?"

Fall 2002 Workshops

October 8Rachel Dunifon, Cornell University
"Do Generous Welfare Policies Benefit Children in Single-Parent Familes?"
October 29Elizabeth Gershoff, Columbia University
"Corporal Punishment by Parents: Effects on Children and Links to Physical Abuse"
November 19Diane 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 Workshops

April 16Donna Morrison, Georgetown University
"The Long-Term and Dynamic Consequences of Divorce For Children"
April 23Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
"What Have We Learned from Twins About the Returns to Schooling?"
May 7Andrew Fuligni, UCLA
"Family Obligation and the Transition to Young Adulthood"
May 14Jane Miller, Rutgers University
"Factors Associated with Disenrollment from the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Evidence from NJ KidCare"
May 28Janet Currie, UCLA
"Networks, Neighborhoods, and the Utilization ofPublicly-Funded Prenatal Care in CA"

Winter 2002 Workshops

January 15Phil Levine, Wellesley College
"The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree"
February 5Hilary Hoynes, University of California-Davis
"The Impact of Welfare Reform on Living Arrangements"
February 19Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin
"The Role of Noneconomic Family Resources in the Well-Being of Children"
February 26Roland Fryer, University of Chicago
"Integrating Culture into Economics of the Winter"
March 5Tom Dishion, University of Oregon

Fall 2001 Workshops

October 5Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington
"Child Gender and Transitions to Marriage"
October 12E. Michael Foster, Penn State University
"The Full Costs of Improved Mental Health Services: Cost Shifting Across Child-Serving Agencies"
November 9Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago
"Desegregation and Black Dropouts Rates"
November 16Robert J. Willis, University of Michigan
"Subjective Probability Distributions and the Decision to Save"
November 30Hiro 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 Workshops

April 13Sydney Hans, University of Chicago
"Drugs, Mothers, and Children"
April 27David Blau, University of North Carolina
"The Economics of Child Care"
May 4Fredrick Morrison, Loyola University of Chicago
"Early Academic Problems and The Role of Learning-Related Social Skills"
May 11Byron Egeland, University of Minnesota
"Home Visitation Programs and High Risk Families"
May 25Ross Thompson, University of Nebraska
"Young Children's Understandings of Conscience and Morality"
June 1Larry Steinberg, Temple University
"Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried as Adults?"
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