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Autumn 2019
Date Presenter Title
October 10
(Week 2)		 Kieron Barclay, Deputy Head of The Laboratory of Population Health, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research The influence of health in early adulthood on male fertility; a comparison of siblings using population register data
October 17
(Week 3)		 William Elliott, Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan Making education work for the poor; the potential of children’s savings accounts

October 24
(Week 4) 

 Thomas McDade, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Three common assumptions about inflammation and aging that are probably wrong
October 31
(Week 5)		 Christof Brandtner, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mansueto Institute, University of Chicago Civic capacity and the catalysts of green construction in U.S. cities
November 7
(Week 6)		 Sanyu Mojola, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University HIV after 40 in rural South Africa: Aging in the context of an HIV/AIDS epidemic
November 14
(Week 7)		 Yukiko Asai, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago Temporary work contracts and female labor market outcomes: evidence from the Japanese airline industry
November 21
(Week 8)		 Daniel Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Follow the carbon: housing movements and climate politics in the 21st century city
November 28
(Week 9)		 Thanksgiving No Workshop
December 5
(Week 10)		 Jeehoon Han, Postdoctoral Scholar, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago The impact of SNAP work requirements for the labor supply
Spring 2019
Date Presenter Title

April 4 (Week 1)

 Juanna Joensen, Senior Research Associate, Economics, University of Chicago Complementarities in High School and College Investments
April 11 (Week 2) Leonardo Bursztyn, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia
April 18 (Week 3) Kelly Bedard, Professor & Chair of Economics, University of California—Santa Barbara Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers
April 25 (Week 4) Andrew Garin, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Lifecycle Determinants of Alternative Work: Evidence from US Tax Returns
May 2 (Week 5) Dan Aaronson, VP & Director of Microeconomic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago The Effects of the 1930s HOLC Redlining Maps
May 9 (Week 6) Carolyn Sloane, Visiting Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy What Happened in California? Cross-state Heterogeneity in College Completion
May 16 (Week 7) Maya Rossin-Slater, Assistant Professor—Dpt of Health Research & Policy, Stanford U. School of Medicine When Dad Stays Home: Paternity Leave, Maternal and Infant Health
May 23 (Week 8) Patricia Cortez, Associate Prof: Markets, Public Policy & Law—Boston U. Questrom School of Business Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
May 30 (Week 9) Julia R. Henly, Professor, UChicago School of Social Service Administration Managing Work, Care, and Child Care Benefits in the Context of Precarious Employment
June 6 (Week 10) Kelsey Bogue, Associate Director of Training Programs & CHeSS, UChicago ETHICS SEMINAR
Winter 2019
Date Presenter Title
January 10
(Week 1)		 Derek Neal, William C. Norby Professor of Economics University of Chicago Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools
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January 17
(Week 2)		 Robert J. Kaestner, Visiting Professor, UChicago—Harris School of Public Policy Education and Health over the Life Cycle
January 24
(Week 3)		 Alisa C. Lewin, Visiting Professor of Anthropology & Sociology, Stanford University—Israel Institute The Effect of Age at Migration on Poverty among Immigrants: Differences by Country of Origin
January 31
(Week 4)		 Thomas McDade, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Inflammation, Aging, and Disease: Insights from Human Population Biology
February 7
(Week 5)		 Jennifer Hirsch , Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia U.—Mailman School of Public Health The Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation: Mixed-Methods Research on the Ecology of Campus Sexual Assault
February 14
(Week 6)		 David Williamson Shaffer, Professor of Learning Sciences, U. Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Psychology Quantitative Ethnography
February 21
(Week 7)		 Anna Mueller, Asst. Prof. of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago Life Under Pressure: Examining the Cultural-Structural Roots of Adolescent Suicide Clusters
February 28
(Week 8)		 Rene Flores, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago Who Are the “Illegals”? The Social Construction of Illegality in the United States
March 7
(Week 9)		 Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Prof., Sociology & Public Affairs, Princeton University Trends, Causes, and Consequences of Segregation in Metropolitan America
March 14
(Week 10)		 Bridget Gorman, Professor of Sociology, Rice University Does Sexual Orientation Complicate the Relationship between Marital Status and Health?
Autumn 2018
Date Presenter Title
October 4
(Week 1)		 Lissette Piedra, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign  The Association of Subjective Social Status with Life’s Simple 7s Cardiovascular Health Index in Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Survey of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)

October 11 (Week 2)

 Ellen Compernolle, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago Temporary International Labor Migration and the Marital Relationship: Evidence from South Asia
October 18
(Week 3)		 Hui Zheng, Associate Professor of Sociology, the Ohio State University The Role of Mortality Selection in Demography of Aging and Health Disparities
October 25
(Week 4)		 Anthony Paik, Professor of Sociology, the Ohio State University Outside of the Race Box: Multiracial Lawyers, Racial Claims-making, and Inequalities in Big Law
November 1
(Week 5)		 Douglas Lee Lauen, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina A Path Toward Citizenship: The Effects of Early College High Schools on Criminal Convictions and Voting
November 8
(Week 6)		 Yoonsun Choi, Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina Behaving Well but Unhappy? Differential Determinants of External vs. Internal Outcomes among Filipino and Korean American Youth
November 15
(Week 7)		 Mahesh Somashekhar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Racial Inequality between Gentrifiers: How the Race of Gentrifiers Affects Retail Development in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
November 22
(Week 8)		 Thanksgiving No Workshop
November 29
(Week 9)		 NSHAP Fellows Meetings No Workshop
December 6
(Week 10)		 Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals TBA 
Spring 2018
Date Presenter Title
March 29
(Week 1)		 Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University Mothers’ Long-Term Employment Patterns

April 5      (Week 2)

 Joseph Ferrie, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University Early-Life Education and Late-Life Outcomes: Exposure to Pre-School 1943-46 and Well-Being After Age 50
April 12
(Week 3)		 Deirdre Bloome, Assistant Professor of Sociology at LSA-Michigan University, Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Social Research Educational Inequalities, Educational Expansion, and Intergenerational Income Mobility in the US
April 19
(Week 4)		 Thomas DiPrete, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, co-director of ISERP School-to-Work Linkages and Labor Market Outcomes
April 26
(Week 5)		 PAA No seminar
May 3
(Week 6)
 

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latina/Latino Studies at Northwestern University

 Theorizing Population Politics: The Case of National Latino Advocacy
May 10
(Week 7)		 Jason Fletcher, Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty Genetic Endowments, Educational Attainment, and Social Mobility
May 17
(Week 8)		 Sarah Garver, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology Department, University of Chicago Uncertainty and Fertility Preferences in Rural Malawi: Planning for Children When the Is
May 24
(Week 9)		 Kelsey Bogue, Center for Health and Social Sciences Ethics Workshop
May 31
(Week 10)		 College Reading Period TBA 
Winter Quarter 2018, Demography Workshop Schedule
Autumn 2017
Date Presenter Title
9/28/2017 Robert Smith, Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies, and Public Affairs, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York “Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn, But Check His Papers: Three Methods and Two Logics of Analysis in Long Term Ethnographic Research on Legal Status and Second Generation Integration”
10/5/2017 Tukufu Zuberi, Professor of Sociology; The Lasry Professor of Race Relations; Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania “The Demographic Racial Transition”
10/12/2017 Colm O’Muircheartaigh, Senior Fellow, NORC at the University of Chicago “Predicting (and Understanding) Nonresponse in Surveys: Revealed Preferences”
10/19/2017 Mai See Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center on the Demographic and Economics of Aging, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, NORC at the University of Chicago “The Impacts of Life Events on Depression in Later Life in Older Hmong Immigrants”
10/26/2017 René Bautista, Senior Research Methodologist, NORC at the University of Chicago “Questionnaire Design in Theory and Practice”
11/2/2017 Greg Kaplan, Professor, Department of Economics and the College, The University of Chicago “The Changing (Dis-)utility of Work”
11/9/2017 Angela Garcia, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago “Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law”
11/16/2017 Joanna Lahey, Associate Professor, Bush School at Texas A&M University “Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment”
11/30/2017

Jorge Rodriguez, Doctoral Student, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago

Jaclyn Wong, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago

“Income and Child Care Subsidies for Low-Income Families and Children’s Academic Achievement”

“Couples, Families, and Inequalities Over the Life Course”

 

Spring 2017
Date Presenter Title
3/30/2017 Kathryn Demanelis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago “Genomic biomarkers of aging across tissues and in arsenic-exposed populations”
4/6/2017 Emily Smith-Greenaway, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California “Unrealized Expectations and Psychological Outcomes: Can Cultural Models Influence Young Adults’ Resilience?”
4/13/2017 T.V. Sekher, Professor of Population Policies & Programs, International Institute for Population Studies “India’s Aged: Gender and Family Concerns”
4/20/2017 Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UCLA “Bringing context back in: Origin, Destination, and the New Second Generation”
5/4/2017 Deborah Gorman-Smith, Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor, School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago “Strengthening Families and Communities to Prevent Youth Violence”
5/11/2017 Christopher Wildeman, Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University “The Long-term Consequences of Solitary Confinement”
5/18/2017 Jenna Nobles, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Characterizing cohort loss before birth”
5/25/2017 Mark Montgomery, Professor of Economics, Stony Brook University; Senior Associate, Population Council “Extreme-event disasters in Latin America: Lessons from Deslnventar”
6/1/2017 April Baker, IRB Administrator, NORC
Alicia Menendez, Associate Professor of Public Policy, UChicago; Principal Research Scientist, NORC
Jenny Trinitapoli, Associate Professor of Sociology, UChicago		 Ethics Workshop
“Research Ethics in International Settings”

 

Winter 2017
Date Presenter Title
1/12/2017 Linda Waite, Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago; William Dale, Associate Professor of Medicine, The University of Chicago “The Foundations of Health: Medicine, Medical Practice and the Aging Individual”
1/19/2017 Marc Berman, Assistant Professor of Psychology, The University of Chicago “Deconstructing Nature and Its Benefits”
1/26/2017 Jim Raymo, Professor of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Emergence of Dual-earner Marriages in Japan? Trends in Educational Assortative Mating and Marriage Differentials”
2/2/2017 Leonid Gavrilov, Senior Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago; Natalia Gavrilova, Senior Research Analyst, NORC at the University of Chicago “Biodemography of Human Longevity: Mortality Laws and Longevity Predictors”
2/9/2017 Jennifer Barber, Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan “The Paradox of Unintended Pregnancy: Why Do So Many Young Women Who Say They Don’t Want to Get Pregnant Get Pregnant Anyway?”
2/16/2017 Stuart Michaels, Senior Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago “From Homosexuality to Sexual and Gender Minorities: Problems in the Study of Gender, Sexuality, and Health”
2/23/2017 Michael Rendall, Professor of Sociology, The University of Maryland “The failure of the 1996 welfare reform to reshape women’s life courses: Evidence from three cohorts”
3/2/2017 Maria Krysan, Professor of Sociology, The University of Illinois-Chicago “The Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and the Perpetuation of Residential Stratification”
3/9/2017 Eve Ewing, Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago “There Were Children Here: Race, School Closings, and Public Housing on Chicago’s South Side”
Autumn 2016
Date Presenter Title
9/29/2016 Haena Lee, Brian Tuohy, Julia Caldwell, and Kristina Pagel, The University of Chicago Job Talk Seminar for Students on the Market
10/6/2016 Rena Conti, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago Measuring Financial Toxicity Among Patients with Cancer
10/13/2016 Tom W. Smith, Senior Fellow, NORC at the University of Chicago Extending the Total Survey Error Perspective to Multiple-Surveys and Big Data
10/20/2016 John Eason, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University Mass Imprisonment Across the Rural-Urban Interface
11/10/2016 Pajarita Charles, School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago Promoting Development among Children of Fathers Involved with the Criminal Justice System
11/17/2016 Marc Hernandez, Senior Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago Predictive School Readiness Skills and Experiences
12/1/2016 Nicole Marwell, School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago Marketization and Patronage Dynamics in the Provision of Local Social Welfare
Spring 2016
Date Presenter Title
4/7/2016 Juanna Joensen, Senior Research Associate, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago Spillovers in Educational Choice
4/21/2016 Kirabo Jackson, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University The Causal Effect of Single-Sex Education on Academic Outcomes and Crime: New Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
4/28/2016 Seth Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business The Effects of Earnings Disclosure on College Enrollment Decisions
5/5/2016 Matt Notowidigdo, Associate Professor of Economics, Northwestern University The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries
5/12/2016 D’Lane Compton, Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of New Orleans Identity and Identification: Negotiating Survey Forms as a Gender and/or Sexual Minority
5/19/2016 Richard Hornbeck, Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dust Bowl Migrants: Selection and Migration Patterns of Environmental Refugees
5/26/2016 Ilyana Kuziemko, Professor of Economics, Princeton University Why did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate
6/2/2016 April Baker, Senior IRB Manager, NORC at the University of Chicago; Katherine Lerner, Director, IRB Social Sciences, University of Chicago Annual Protection of Human Subject Seminar: Tales from the IRB Trenches: Examples of What Can Go Wrong in Human Subjects Research and How to Avoid Those Mistakes
Winter 2016
Date Presenter Title
1/7/2016 Dana Garbarski, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago Examining Interviewers’ Ratings of Respondents’ Health: Correlates, Subsequent Mortality, and Concordance with Respondents’ Ratings
1/14/2016 Harold Pollack, Professor, School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago Chicago’s Underground Gun Market
1/21/2016 Daniel Bennett, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago The Marriage Market for Lemons: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi”
1/28/2016 Manasi Deshpande, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago Does Welfare Inhibit Success? The Long-Term Effects of Removing Low-Income Youth from Disability Insurance
2/4/2016 Brea Perry, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University Gendering Genetics: Social and Biological Contingencies in the Protective Effects of Social Integration for Men and Women
2/11/2016 Sara Hernández, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University Guns N’ Roses: The Impact of Female Employment Opportunities on Violence in Colombia
2/18/2016 Diane Lauderdale, Professor, Department of Public Health, The University of Chicago Sleep and Health: Why do Associations Depend on How Sleep is Measured?
2/25/2016 Lubna Al-Kazi, Professor, Department of Sociology, Kuwait University The Demography of Kuwaiti Women
3/3/2016 Anna Mueller, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago Adolescents under Pressure: A New Durkheimian Framework for Understanding Adolescent Suicide in a Cohesive Community
3/10/2016 Rachel Fish, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, The University of Notre Dame Race/Ethnicity, School Context, and Sorting into Special Education
Autumn 2015
Date Presenter Title
10/1/2015 Michael Kremer, Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University Educational, Labor Market, and Welfare Impacts of Scholarships for Private Secondary School: Evidence From Colombia
10/8/2015 Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
10/15/2015 Bruce Meyer, Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago Bias from Unit Non-Response in the Measurement of Income in Household Surveys
10/22/2015 Cristian (Kiki) Pop-Eleches, Associate Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Peer Effects in the Demand for Male Circumcision: Evidence from Secondary Schools in Malawi
10/29/2015 Sean Reardon, Professor, Departments of Education and Sociology, Stanford University Academic Achievement and Socioeconomic Inequality
11/5/2015 Sue Dynarski, Professor, Departments of Public Policy, Education, and Economics, University of Michigan The Persistence of Poverty: Using Longitudinal Data to Understand Gaps in Educational Outcomes
11/12/2015 Xi Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago Shared Lifetimes, Multigenerational Exposure, and Educational Attainment
11/19/2015 Ian Solomon, Vice President for Global Engagement,  The University of Chicago Global Engagement and the University of Chicago
12/3/2015 Kerwin Charles, Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago Discrimination, Culture and Women’s Outcomes in the U.S.
Spring 2015
Date Presenter Title
4/2/2015 Seth Sanders, Professor of Economics, Duke University Identity, Groups, and Social Preferences: Inference from Choices and Response Time
4/9/2015 Michael Gideon, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago Uncovering Heterogeneity in Income Tax Perceptions
4/16/2015 Michelle Budig, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst A Cross-National Perspective on Women’s Self-Employment: Motherhood, Occupation, Socio-Economic Context, and Work-Family Policies
4/23/2015 Justin Denney, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University Same-Sex Families and Health
5/7/2015 James Sullivan, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame Do Homelessness Prevention Programs Prevent Homelessness?
5/14/2015 Ilan Meyer, Senior Scholar for Public Policy, The Williams Institute, UCLA The Shifting Social Climate and the Health of Sexual Minorities in the United States:  New Research Questions and New Research Methodologies
5/21/2015 Fenaba Addo, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Exploring the Role of Debt and Money Management in Young Adult Relationships
5/28/2015 Shoshana Grossbard, Professor of Economics, San Diego State University Common Law Marriage and Teen Births
6/4/2015 Ellis Monk, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago Annual Seminar on the Protection of Human Subject Research Participants (PHSRP)
Winter 2015
Date Presenter Title
1/8/2015 Jay Pinto, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine What can the sense of smell tell us about health, aging, and exposure? Insights from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
1/15/2015 Louise Hawkley, Senior Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago Perceived Social Isolation: Evolutionary Significance and Health Consequences
1/22/2015 Bob Goerge, Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Families with Multiple Problems
1/29/2015 Mei-Po Kwan, Professor, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem: Implications for Population and Health Research
2/5/2015 Emma Adam, Professor, Human Development and Social Policy; Katie Ehrlich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Adolescent Stress and Positive Wellbeing: Implications for Adult Health
2/12/2015 Rayid Ghani, Research Director, Computation Institute & Senior Fellow, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago The Role of Machine Learning and Data Science in Social Sciences
2/19/2015 Ning Hsieh, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago Economic Security, Social Cohesion, and Depression Disparities in Transitional Societies: A Comparison of Older Adults in China and Russia
2/26/2015 Alessandra Gonzalez, Non-Resident Research Fellow, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Islamic Feminism in Kuwait
3/5/2015 Lauren Johnson-Pilgrim, Alicia Riley, and Chenan Zhang, NIA Predoctoral Trainees, University of Chicago NIA Predoctoral Trainee Research Symposium
3/12/2015 Chris Browning, Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University Activity Spaces and Youth Development: Preliminary Findings from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context (AHDC) Study
Autumn 2014
Date Presenter Title
10/2/2014 Kristin Turney, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine The Unequal Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children
10/9/2014 Vida Maralani, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Yale University Is Obesity in the Eye of the Beholder? BMI and Socioeconomic Outcomes Across Cohorts
10/16/2014 Jenny Trinitapoli, Assistant Professor, Demography and Religious Studies, Penn State University A Moveable Feast: The Flexibility of Fertility Preferences in a Transitioning Malawian Community
10/23/2014 Sara LaLumia, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College The Added Worker Effect Revisited: Differential Responses by Husbands and Wives
11/6/2014 Nick Sanders, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, William and Mary College How the Acid Rain Program Changed US Agriculture and Health
11/13/2014 Mary Burleson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University Sex and Affection, Enjoyment and Belonging: Relations with Daily Mood in the Married
11/20/2014 Damon Jones, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago The Social Security Earnings Test and Retirement: Evidence and Implications
12/4/2014 Anjali Adukia, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago Sanitation and Education
Spring 2014
Date Presenter Title
4/3/2014 Bernard Dugoni, Senior Survey Methodologist II, NORC Annual Seminar on the Protection of Human Subjects Research Participants (PHSRP): Anonymization and Deductive Disclosure Protection:  Confidentiality and the Development of Public Use Data Files
4/10/2014 Felicia LeClere, Senior Fellow in the Public Health Department, NORC; Stuart Michaels, Senior Research Scientist in the Academic Research Centers, NORC The Development of a National Data Infrastructure to Monitor the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
4/17/2014 Narayan Sastry, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Studying Overall Self-Rated Health Using Vignettes: New Data and Results from L.A.FANS-2
4/24/2014 Ariel Kalil, Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School Inequality at Home: The Role of Parenting in the Diverging Destinies of Rich and Poor Children
5/8/2014 Alexandra Murphy, National Poverty Center Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Co-Sponsored by the City & Space Workshop. When the Sidewalks End: Poverty in an American Suburb
5/15/2014 Rachel Dunifon, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University Children’s Time with Mothers and Grandparents in Custodial Grandparent Households
5/22/2014 Scott Allard, Associate Professor, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Economic Shocks, Neighborhood Food Infrastructure, and Food Security among Households with Children
5/29/2014 Rachel Gordon, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Does Preschool Quality Predict Children’s Cognitive Growth?: Meta-analysis of a Dozen Datasets with Attention to Policy-Relevant Cut Scores
6/5/2014 Daniel Bennett, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School Learning, Hygiene, and Traditional Medicine
Winter 2014
Date Presenter Title
1/16/2014 John Casterline, Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University The Contours of Contemporary Fertility Declines:  A Fresh Assessment
1/23/2014 Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Tax Farming Redux:  Experimental Evidence on Incentive Pay for Tax Collectors
1/30/2014 Christine Percheski, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University Economic Conditions and Pregnancy Rates in the United States During the Great Recession
2/6/2014 Diane Schanzenbach, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University Long-Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net
2/13/2014 Sarah Mustillo, Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University Women’s Health and Poverty over the Life Course:  The Ghost of Generations Past?
2/20/2014 Rupa Datta, Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for Excellence in Survey Research at NORC Initial Findings from the National Survey of Early Care and Education: Providers of Care to Children Age 5 and Under
2/27/2014 Jason Grissom, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt Peabody College Strategic Staffing: How Accountability Pressures Affect the Distribution of Teachers within Schools and Resulting Student Achievement
3/13/2014 Quincy Stewart, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University Big Bad Racists, Subtle Prejudice and Minority Victims: An Agent-Based Model of the Dynamics of Racial Inequality
Autumn 2013
Date Presenter Title
10/3/2013 Mushfiq Mobarak, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management Communicating with Farmers through Social Networks
10/10/2013 Daniel Bennett, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School The Indirect Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy
10/17/2013 John Iceland, Professor of Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University White Residential Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Conceptual Issues, Patterns, and Trends from the U.S. Census, 1980 to 2010
10/24/2013 Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics, MIT The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India
10/31/2013 Pascaline Dupas, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University Micro-Ordeals and Targeting of Health Subsidies
11/7/2013 Deirdre Bloome, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology: Racial Inequality in Family Income: A Demographic Approach
11/14/2013 Hans-Peter Kohler, Professor of Demography, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Mental and Physical Health and Aging in Malawi
11/21/2013 Damon Jones, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School Frictions in Adjusting Earnings: Evidence from the Social Security Annual Earnings Test
12/5/2013 David Yanagizawa-Drott, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan
Spring 2013
Date Presenter Title
4/4/2013 Charlie Catlett, Urban CCD and the Computation Institute, University of Chicago Urban Sciences: Opportunities for Collaboration between Computer and Social Sciences
4/18/2013 Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology & Demography; Director, Berkeley Population Center, University of California, Berkeley The Social Recession: The Personal and Collective Effects of the Lagging Economy Since 2006
4/25/2013 Alberto Palloni, Professor of Sociology & Director, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison Standard Frailty, Barker Effects and the Path Toward Longevity
5/2/2013 Jim Sallee, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy New Evidence on Taxes and the Timing of Birth
5/9/2013 Cheol-Sung Lee, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, University of Chicago Relational Skill Assets and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments
5/16/2013 Kjell Salvanes, Norwegian School & Business Administration, Professor Department of Economics Joint with CHPPP A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children
5/23/2013 Sandra Black, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs and Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, Joint with CHPP This Is Only a Test?: Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout
5/30/2013 Alicia Adsera, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration
Winter 2013
Date Presenter Title
1/10/2013 Terrie Vasilopoulos, Post-Doc, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago Cognition and Hypertension in Midlife: Evidence for Gene-Environment Therapy
1/17/2013 Emily Oster, Assistant Professor, Chicago Booth Infant Mortality in the US and Europe
1/24/2013 Kazuo Yamaguchi, Professor, Department of Sociology Causal Analysis with a Latent-Class Variable as the Treatment Variable: An Application to An Analysis of the Effect of IT Equipment Use on Income
1/31/2013 Alessandra Voena, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Chicago German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention
2/7/2013 Day Manoli, Department of Economics, UT-Austin Labor Market Effects of the Early Retirement Age
2/14/2013 Brian Cadena, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Colorado-Boulder Immigration, Internal Migration, and Local Labor Market Adjustment During the Great Recession
2/21/2013 Amelia Haviland, Associate Professor of Statistics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Skin in the Game: Effects of a New Generation of High-Deductible Health Plans
2/28/2013 Rachel Margolis, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Western Ontario Education Differences in Healthy Behavior Changes and Adherence Among Middle-Aged Americans
3/7/2013 Damon Jones, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration
3/14/2013 Jane Dokko, Economist, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Household Formation, Credit, and Trustworthiness
Autumn 2012
Date Presenter Title
10/4/2012 Zoë McLaren, Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health The Effect of Access to AIDS Treatment on Employment Outcomes in South Africa
10/11/2012 Nicole Fortin, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement
10/18/2012

Annual Seminar on the Protection of Human Subject Research Participants (PHSRP)

Laura Stark, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health, and Society IRBs and the Problem of Local Precedents
10/25/2012 Stuart Michaels, Senior Research Scientist, Ogburn-Stouffer Center for the Study of Social Organizations, NORC, University of Chicago Studying Sexual Orientation as a Multi-Dimensional Construct in Nationally Representative Surveys
11/1/2012 Scott Lynch, Professor, Department of Sociology & Office of Population Research, Princeton University Selective Mortality in Life Course Research: Consequences, Usefulness, and Solutions
11/8/2012 Terrie Vasilopoulos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago Cognition and Hypertension in Midlife: Evidence for Gene-Environment Interplay (cancelled due to Sociology Job Lecturer)
11/15/2012 Yu-Chieh Hsu, Postdoctoral Fellow, NORC, University of Chicago The Effect of Early-Life Education on Later-Life Mortality
11/29/2012 Hui Zheng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University Examining Temporal Changes in Health Disparities and Mortality Dispersion with an Integrated Model
12/6/2012 S. Jay Olshansky, Professor of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago Zeno’s Paradox of Immortality