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Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential
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.
| 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"
Additional reading:
"Children With Disabilities and Supplemental Security Income: Guidelines for Appropriate Access in Early Childhood" |
| 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" |
(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.) |
(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) |
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