CHPPP

Center for Human Potential and Public Policy

Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential

All workshops (except when noted) are held on Tuesdays from 10:30 to 11:50am in Room 224 of the Harris School of Public Policy, 1155 E. 60th Street.

Questions should be directed to CHPPP Associate Director, Laurel Spindel, ljspinde@uchicago.edu.

Fall 2011 Schedule
Winter 2012 Schedule
Spring 2012 Schedule

Workshop archive

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 2011 Workshops and Working Groups

September 27	No Workshop
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." Related Paper for Download
October 18	No Workshop
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" Related Paper for Download 1 Related Paper for Download 2 Related Paper for Download 3
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” Related Paper for Download 1 Related Paper for Download 2
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 Related Paper for Download 1 Related Paper for Download 2
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” Related Paper for Download 1 Related Paper for Download 2

Winter 2012 Workshops and Working Groups

(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session

January 3	No Workshop
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 24	No Workshop
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 21	No Workshop
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)

Spring 2012 Workshops and Working Groups

(WG)=Working Group Session (W)=Workshop Session

March 27	No Workshop
April 2	Special Day, Time, and Location MONDAY, 4-5:30pm, Harper Memorial Library Building, Rm. 140 Clancy Blair, Professor of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NYU Co-Sponsored with The Ounce of Prevention and The Workshop on Education
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 Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop
April 17	Janna Johnson, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy "The Causal Effect on Mortality of Migration out of the Northern Great Plains"
April 26	Special Day, Time, and Location THURSDAY, 12-1:20pm, NORC, Rm. 232/233 Stella Flores, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education & Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop
May 1	No Workshop
May 10	Special Day, Time, and Location THURSDAY, 12-1:20pm, NORC, Rm. 232/233 Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop
May 15	No Workshop
May 22	Elise Chor, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago "Maternal Employment and Parenting Time" (WG)
May 29	No Workshop

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Contact Information
General Inquiries
Email: chppp@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-3402
Fax: 773-702-5559

Director
Ariel Kalil, Ph.D.
Email: akalil@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-834-2090
Web: Ariel Kalil - Faculty Webpage

Associate Director
Laurel Joy Spindel, M.A., M.A.P.P.
Email: ljspinde@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-3402

Program Assistant/LCFP Student Group Facilitator
Christy Serrano
Email: achristyserrano@uchicago.edu