CHPPP

Center for Human Potential and Public Policy

Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential

All workshops (except when noted) will be held on Thursdays from 10:30 to 11:50am. In the fall and winter quarters the workshop will take place in Room 224 at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and in the spring quarter in the Woodlawn Room. Refreshments provided. Questions should be directed to Associate Director Laurel Spindel, ljspinde@uchicago.edu.

Fall 2009 Schedule
Winter 2010 Schedule
Spring 2010 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 2009 Workshops and Working Groups

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

October 1	NO WORKSHOP
October 8	***Special time: 9-10:20 a.m.* Jen-Hao Chen**, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago "Getting a Head Start on Non-Cognitive Abilities: Maternal Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy and Child Temperament" (WG)
October 15	NO WORKSHOP
October 22	CHPPP Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society (5:00-7:30 p.m., Hughes Auditorium, Northwestern University, Chicago Campus) Heidi Schweingruber, Deputy Director, Board on Science Education, National Research Council "The State of Science Education: A Local and National Perspective”
October 29	Aaron Sojourner, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota “Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR” (W) Co-sponsored with the Workshop on Education
November 5	NO WORKSHOP (APPAM Conference)
November 12	Lia Fernald, Associate Professor, Public Health Nutrition, Community Health & Human Development, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley "Ten-year Impact of Oportunidades –Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program – On Child Growth, Cognition, Language and Behavior" (Related Paper) (W)
November 19	April Wu, Doctoral Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago "Why Do So Few Elderly Use Food Stamps?" (WG)
November 26	NO WORKSHOP (Thanksgiving)
December 3	*Special time and location: 12:00-1:20 p.m., Room 140C* Co-sponsored with the Demography Workshop Peter Brandon, Broom Professor of Social Demography, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College "Single Mothers and Minimum Wages: Preliminary Findings" (W)

Winter 2010 Workshops and Working Groups

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

January 7	NO WORKSHOP
January 14	Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education Alejandro Ome, Doctoral Student, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies "Understanding the Effect of Assessed Ability on School Choice" (WG)
January 21	Lauren Rich, Senior Researcher, Chapin Hall Center for Children “Mothers' Self-Employment and Behavioral Outcomes Among Young Children” (W)
January 28	Arianna Zanolini, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy Studies (co-authors: Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago, and Pia Pinger, University of Mannheim) "Maternal Capabilities and Child Birth Weight: An Analysis of the Channels for Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality" (WG)
February 4	NO WORKSHOP
February 11	TWO WORKSHOPS: *10:30-11:50 a.m., Room 224* Danielle Crosby, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro "Linkages between Family Benefit Use and the Early Development of Immigrant Children" (W) *12:00-1:20 p.m., Room 140C* Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop Bhashkar Mazumder, Executive Director, Chicago Census Research Data Center and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Frank F. Limehouse, Economist and Administrator, Chicago Census Research Data Center "Research Opportunities at the Chicago RDC" (W)
February 18	Melanie Guldi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Mount Holyoke College "Do Pregnant Teens Respond to Improved Opportunities? An Evaluation of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (W)
February 22	Special Day, Time and Location: *MONDAY, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Harper Room 140* Co-Sponsored with the Workshop on Education Matthew Steinberg, Doctoral Student, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, will present "Safety in Chicago Schools: Do Organizational Structures Mediate Community Influences?" (WG)
February 25	Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Co-Sponsored with the Demography Workshop “Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth” (W)
March 4	Ioana Marinescu, Assistant Professor, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies "HIV, Wages and Labor Productivity" (W)

Spring 2010 Workshops and Working Groups

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

April 1	NO WORKSHOP
April 8	Micere Keels, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development "Ethnic Group Divergence in Children’s Early Cognitive Development" (W)
April 12	Special Day, Time, and Location: *MONDAY, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Room 140B* Co-Sponsored with Harris School Urban Policy Initiative Andrew Leigh, Professor, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University "Crime and Mental Wellbeing" (W)
April 15	Elizabeth Gershoff, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin "From Oportunidades to the Harlem Children’s Zone: The Research Base for Novel US and International Poverty Reduction Programs" (W)
April 22	Heather Hill, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration (W)
April 29	Amy Claessens, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies (W)
May 4	Special Day, Time and Location: *TUESDAY, 12:00-1:20 p.m., Room 140C* Joshua Gans, Professor of Management - Information Economics, University of Melbourne Business School "Unusual Days in Births and Deaths" (W)
May 6	Hiro Yoshikawa, Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University "Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents of the Second Generation" (W)
May 13	Stefanie DeLuca, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University (W)
May 20	Ofer Malamud, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies "Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital" (W)
May 27	Kevin Roy, Associate Professor, Family Science Department, University of Maryland (W)
June 3	Bessie Wilkerson, Senior Research Associate, Harlem Children's Zone (W)

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Contact Information
General Inquiries
Email: chppp@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-3402
Fax: 773-702-5999

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/Student Group Facilitator
Elizabeth Sherman
Email: betta@uchicago.edu