CHPPP

Center for Human Potential and Public Policy

Workshop/Working Group Archive

Spring 2009 Workshops and Working Groups

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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, and Educational 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

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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

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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

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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"

"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"

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"

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

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"

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"

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

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?"

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"

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"

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

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?"

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?"

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