IRP SUMMER RESEARCH WORKSHOP
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MONDAY, JUNE 19 |
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Session 1: Evaluation and Training Programs |
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1:00-2:15 | "Are Program Participants Good Evaluators?" Jeff Smith, University of Michigan, Alexander Whalley, University of Maryland, and Nathaniel Wilcox, University of Houston |
2:15-3:30 | "Does Job Corps Work? Impact and Benefit-Cost Findings from
the National Job Corps Study" Peter Schochet, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |
3:30-3:45 | Break |
3:45-5:00 | "Are Training Programmes More Effective When Unemployment is High?" Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch, University of St. Gallen |
5:00-6:15 | "Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs
for the Unemployed in West Germany" Bernd Fitzenberger (with A. Osikominu & R. Volter), Goethe University |
Dinner and Roundtable |
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8:20-9:20 | "Ready4Work: An Ex-prisoner Re-entry Initiative" Brent Orrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Relations, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services |
TUESDAY, JUNE 20 |
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Session 2: Consumption, Poverty, and Wealth |
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8:30-9:45 | "Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty" Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago, and James Sullivan, University of Notre Dame |
9:45-11:00 | "Children and Household Wealth" Anath Seshadri and John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
Session 3: Intergenerational Mobility |
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11:15-12:30 | “Intergenerational Mobility, Careers, and Task-Specific
Human Capital” Ted Mouw and Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Session 4: Inequality, Fatherhood, and Gender |
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1:30-2:45 | "Income and Digital Inequalities in the United States" Salvador Rivas and Jeremy Freese, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
2:45-3:00 | Break |
3:00-4:15 | "Fatherhood, Employment, and Economic Well-Being" Rebecca Glauber, New York University |
4:15-5:30 | "Gendered Reciprocity: Work Discontent and the Household Production
of Health" Ross Stolzenberg, University of Chicago, and Kristi Williams, Ohio State University |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 |
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Session 5: Early Life and Schools |
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8:30-9:45 | "The Influence of Early Life Events on Health, Human
Capital Accumulation, and Labor Market" Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley, and Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan |
9:45-11:00 | “School Readiness and Later Achievement” Greg Duncan, Northwestern University |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
11:15-12:30 | “The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children:
Home, School, and Racial Test Score Gaps” Petra Todd and Ken Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania |
1:30-2:45 | "The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3–8" Jake Vigdor, Charles Clotfelter, and Helen Ladd, Duke University |
2:45-4:00 | “School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap” Eric Hanushek, Stanford University, and Steve Rivkin, Amherst College |
4:00-4:15 | Break |
4:15-5:30 | "Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation" James Heckman, University of Chicago |
THURSDAY, JUNE 22 |
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Session 6: Welfare Research |
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8:30-9:45 | "The Effect of Specific Welfare Policies on Poverty" Signe-Mary McKernan and Caroline Ratcliffe, Urban Institute |
9:45-11:00 | "Analyzing Movements over Time in Employment Status and Welfare
Participation while Controlling for Seam Bias using SIPP" John Ham, University of Southern California, Xianghong Li, York University, and Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
11:15-12:30 | "Food Insufficiency,
Food Stamp Participation, and Mental Health" Colleen Heflin and James Ziliak, University of Kentucky |
12:30-1:45 | "The Introduction of the Food Stamp Program: Impacts
on Food Consumption and Nutrition" Diane Whitemore Schanzenbach, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Davis |
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Last Updated:
July 27, 2006
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