Past Workshops

Winter 2024 Workshop Schedule
DATE SPEAKER TITLES

January 4th, 2024

(1st Week)

 No Workshop

January 11th, 2024

(2nd Week)

Kavi Bhalla, University of Chicago How good are we at measuring global health? A case study of road traffic injury estimates

January 18th, 2023

(3th Week)

Tanya Rajan & Melanie Nadon, University of Chicago

 

Aggregating Inequalities: Analyzing the Regional Predictors of Child Maltreatment Investigation and Substantiation Density

January 25th, 2023

(4th Week)

Yana Gallen, University of Chicago The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy

February 1st, 2023

(5th Week)

Philip Rocco, Marquette University

Counting Like a State: The Politics of Intergovernmental Partnerships in the 2020 Census

February 8th, 2023

(6th Week)

Joel Mittleman, University of Notre Dame Sexual Fluidity: Implications for Population Research 

February 15th, 2023

(7th Week)

Sven Wilson, Brigham Young University Understanding the spousal concordance in mortality using kin-linked data

February 22th, 2023

(8th Week)

T32 Program sponsored event

Ethics Seminar

 

February 29th, 2023

(9th Week)

Jaclyn Wong,  University of South Carolina Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions

March 7th, 2023

(Final Week)

 No Workshop
Fall 2023 Workshop Schedule

 

DATE SPEAKER TITLES

October 5th, 2023

(1st Week)

Winnie van Dijk, Yale University
Evictions and Poverty

October 12th, 2023

(2nd Week)

Juan Pedroza, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Child Care in Mixed-Status Households

October 19th, 2023

(3th Week)

Mike Esposito, University of Illinois – Chicago Historical Redlining and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Life Expectancy

October 26th, 2023

(4th Week)

Leah Boustan, Princeton University Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020

November 2nd, 2023

(5th Week)

Alicia Menendez, University of Chicago
Barriers to Girls’ Education in Rural Malawi

November 9th, 2023

(6th Week)

Bhash Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan using administrative health records 

November 16th, 2023

(7th Week)

Laura Lindberg, Rutgers University The title of my talk is Stigma, Sensitivity, and Surveys: Measuring Abortion Post-Dobbs

November 23th, 2023

(8th Week)

No Workshop – Thanksgiving break

November 30th, 2023

(9th Week)

Melissa Kerney, University of Maryland The Cyclicality of Births and Babies’ Health, Revisited: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance

December 7th, 2023

(Final Week)

 No Workshop

 

 

Spring 2023 Workshop Schedule

 

DATE SPEAKER TITLES
March 23, 2023 (1st Week)
Yiang Li, MACSS candidate in Sociology
Meiyi Li, MAPSS candidate in Sociology,
Hancock Spitzer, PhD candidate in Sociology
PAA Practice Talks
March 30, 2023 (2nd Week) Chiara Galli, University of Chicago
Precarious protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States
April 6, 2023 (3th Week) Amy Bailey, University of Illinois – Chicago The Past Is Not Even Past: Historical Mob Violence and Contemporary Pregnancy Outcomes
April 13, 2023 (4th Week) No Workshop – PAA
April 20th, 2023 (5th Week) Lucas Drouhot, Utrecht University
Assimilation or third-generation decline? Socioeconomic attainment among the grandchildren of Southern European and North African immigrants in France
April 27, 2023 (6th Week) Alice Evans, Yale University and Kings College London Ten Thousand Years of Patriarchy
May 4th, 2023 (7th Week) Cameron Campbell, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Family Background Influences on the Careers of Qing Officials, 1830-1912
May 11th, 2023 (8th Week) Luciana Luz, Visiting Scholar at UChicago from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Educational Expansion and Demographic Change in Brazil: decomposing effects of concurrent transitions
May 18th, 2023 (9th Week) Anup Malani, University of Chicago Excess deaths from COVID in India: data from household rosters and verbal autopsies
May 25th, 2023 (Final Week)  No Workshop

 

Winter 2023 Workshop Schedule

 

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
January 12, 2023 (2nd Week) Julian Reif, University of Illinois Pollution and Mortality in the United States: Evidence from 1972-1988
January 19, 2023 (3rd Week) Mahesh Karra, Boston University The Causal Impact of Family Planning in Urban Malawi
January 26, 2023 (4th Week) Jesse McDevitt-Irwin, Columbia University US Infant Mortality in the 19th Century: New Evidence from Childhood Sex Ratios
February 2, 2023 (5th Week) Lindsay Kobayashi, University of Michigan
Socioeconomic conditions and cognitive aging in a rural, low-income setting: triangulating evidence across complementary study designs
February 9th, 2023 (6th Week) Informal Lunch for Regular Workshop Participants
February 16, 2023 (7th Week) Aashish Gupta, University of Oxford Pandemic excess mortality in India: New evidence
February 23rd, 2023 (8th Week) Chinyere Agbai, The Ohio State University Location, Location, Location: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Racialized Stratification of Homeownership Across Place
March 2nd, 2023 (9th Week) No workshop

 

Fall 2022 Workshop Schedule + Recordings

 

DATE SPEAKER                                                
TITLE
October 6, 2022 (2nd Week) Salvador Navarro, The University of Western Ontario (coauthor Jin Zhou, The University of Chicago) Human Capital and Migration: a Cautionary Tale
October 13, 2022 (3rd Week) Jin Zhou, The University of Chicago (coauthor James Heckman, The University of Chicago) The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
October 27, 2022 (5th Week) Ziyuan Yang, University of Virginia The IUD Spread in China, the 1980s-90s: Population Program, Industrial Policy, and International Relations
November 3, 2022 (6th Week) Yong Cai, University of North Carolina China’s Population at the Crossroads –Learning from the 2020 Census
November 10, 2022 (7th Week) Xi Song, University of Pennsylvania Understanding Subjective Inequality in China
November 17, 2022 (8th Week) Jia Miao, NYU Shanghai Building cohesive neighborhoods in Shanghai
December 1, 2022 (10th Week) Ashton Verdery, Pennsylvania State University The Parable of the Little Emperors: The Changing Contours of Grandparenthood in China and the Dangers of Armchair Demography
Spring 2022 Workshop Schedule + Recordings

 

Spring 2022
Date Presenter Title
March 31         (Week 1) Youngjin Stephanie Hong, UChicago Crown Family School Deportation threat and infant birth weight: Evidence from California (recording)
April 14
(Week 2)
Héctor Carrillo, Northwestern University Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men
April 21
(Week 3)
Marc A. Garcia, Syracuse University Cognitive Decline and Dementia among Older Latinx Adults in the United States: Current Knowledge, Debates and Future Directions (recording)
April 28
(Week 4)
Ariela Schachter, Washington University in St. Louis Signals of Segregation: The Use of Spanish in Online Housing Advertisements (recording)
May 5
(Week 5)
Emilio Parrado, University of Pennsylvania The labor force trajectories of immigrant women in the United States: Intersection of individual and gendered cohort characteristics
May 12
(Week 6)
Julie Dowling, University of Illinois Chicago Theorizing Racialized Political Trust: Latino Perceptions of Trust in Government
May 19
(Week 7)
Maria Abascal, New York University Know it when you see it? The qualities of the communities that people describe as “diverse” (or not)
May 26
(Week 8)

Abby Weitzman, University of Texas at Austin

Design and Implementation of an Online Weekly Survey of “Refugee” Family Life in Costa Rica
Winter 2022 Workshop Schedule + Recordings

 

Winter 2022
Date Presenter Title
January 13
(Week 1)
Tim Cejka, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Long-Run Impacts of In-Utero Ramadan Exposure: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records (recording)
January 20
(Week 2)
Prof. Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California  Health and Aging in India
January 27
(Week 3)
Frank Lin, Johns Hopkins University
Hearing, aging, and public health – from epidemiological insights to the ACHIEVE clinical trial (Postponed)
February 3
(Week 4)
Daniel Rubin, University of Chicago Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Functional Capacity, Physical Activity, and Surgery (recording)
February 10
(Week 5)
Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, Chao-Yi Wu, Teresa Tian, Amal Wanigatunga, Jill Rabinowitz, Chengjian Shi, Jennifer Schrack

Emerging biotechnology markers of cognitive impairment (recording)

February 17
(Week 6)
Naoko Muramatsu, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health Global Aging: Building Health Promotion and Equity into Home and Community-Based Services (recording)
February 24
(Week 7)
Laura Finch and Ellen Compernolle Alone together? Older adults’ social contexts, loneliness, and the COVID-19 pandemic (recording)
March 3
(Week 8)

David Meltzer, MD, PhD, Fanny L. Pritzker Professor of Medicine, William Parker, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Marsha Rosner, PhD, Charles B. Huggins Professor of Ben May Department of Cancer Research

Ethics, Rigor, and Reproducibility in COVID-19 Research, sponsored by the NIA T32 Demography and Economics of Aging 

March 10
(Week 9)
Amy Kind, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Moving Beyond the Journal: The Neighborhood Atlas and ADRD Disparities (recording)

March 17
(Week 10)
Ishanu Chattopadhyay  
Fall 2021 Workshop Schedule + Recordings
Fall 2021
Date Presenter Title
September 30
(Week 1)
Malte Sandner, Institute for Employment Research Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting in Germany: 7-Year Outcomes of a Randomized Trial (recording)
October 7
(Week 2)
Orla Doyle, University College Dublin Can Early Intervention have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital? (recording)

October 14
(Week 3) 

Erika Bocknek, Wayne State University  Adaptive Parenting and Children’s Emotional Development in Brilliant Black Families (recording)
October 21
(Week 4)
Rachel Chazan Cohen, University of Connecticut  The promise of two-generation early childhood programs: Evidence from Early Head Start 
October 28
(Week 5)
Miriam Wust, University of Copenhagen  The long-run effects of longer follow-up. Evidence on the importance of childhood health interventions from a historical trial 
November 4
(Week 6)
Victor Ronda, The University of Chicago  The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills (recording)
November 11
(Week 7)
Pamela Jervis, University of Chile Early Childhood Development Interventions: The case of Psychosocial Stimulation (recording)
November 18
(Week 8)
Alexandra Brentani, Universidade de Sao Paulo Implementation of Reach Up and Learn – based public policy in Brazil: evidence from Boa Vista (recording)
     
     
Winter 2021

 

Winter 2021
Date Presenter Title
January 14
(Week 1)
Alejandro Ome, NORC Implications of attrition in randomized control trials: evidence from early education interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa
January 21
(Week 2)
Rishita Nandagiri, London School of Economics COVID-19 and Abortion: Making Structural Violence Visible
January 28
(Week 3) 
Guanglei Hong, University of Chicago Impacts of the Great Recession on Youth Disconnection from School and Work
February 4th (Week 4) Xiaoyu Xia, Chinese University of Hong Kong Local Innovation through Investment in Education: Evidence from Chinese Cities
February 18th
(Week 5)
Leticia Marteleto, University of Texas at Austin

 

February 25th (Week 6)

 

 

Dylan Connor, Arizona State University
March 4
(Week 7)
Stephanie Helleringer, NYU Abu Dhabi
March 11
(Week 8)
Christina Diaz, University of Arizona

 

Winter 2020
Winter 2020
Date Presenter Title
January 9
(Week 1)
Derek Hyra, American University Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
January 16
(Week 2)
Ned English and Kevin Brown, NORC Making Sense of Sensor Data: How Local Environmental Conditions Add Value to Social Science Research

January 23
(Week 3) 

Adam Bickford, Colorado State Demography Office The Grassroots Census: Colorado and The 2020 Census
January 30
(Week 4)
David Meltzer, University of Chicago Improving Care for Patients at Increased Risk of Hospitalization: Effects of the Comprehensive Care Physician Model
February 6
(Week 5)
Eman Abdelhadi, University of Chicago Model Minority or Marginalized Minority: Muslim Economic Outcomes in the United States
February 13
(Week 6)
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, University of Chicago Brain Waste?: Education-Labor Mismatch And Health Outcomes Among Immigrant Workers in the US
February 20
(Week 7)
Nell Compernolle, NORC All in the Family? Kinship Ties, Social Context, and Loneliness among Older Adults
February 27
(Week 8)
Marcy Carlson, University of Wisconsin Longer Lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark
March 5
(Week 9)
Emily Rose Merchant, University of California, Davis Demography as Diplomacy in the Cold War World
March 12
(Week 10)
So Yoon Ahn, University of Illinois, Chicago Matching Across Markets: Selection of Cross-Market Matches and Its Impact on the Overall Market in the Context of Cross-Border Marriage
Autumn 2019
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
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
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
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
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 
Autumn 2017
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

 

Spring 2017
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
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
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

 

Spring 2016
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

 

Winter 2016
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

 

Autumn 2015
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

 

Spring 2015
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

 

Winter 2015
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

 

Autumn 2014
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

 

Spring 2014
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

 

Winter 2014
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

 

Autumn 2013
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

 

Spring 2013
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

 

Winter 2013
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

 

Autumn 2012
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