(Please note that participation is by invitation only. For more information please contact Coreen Williams at cwilliam@ssc.wisc.edu.)
IRP SUMMER RESEARCH WORKSHOP |
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MONDAY, JUNE 20 |
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Session #1: Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty |
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12:00-1:15 | New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina Jacob Vigdor, Duke University |
1:15-2:30 | Migration Experience and Earnings in the Mexican Labor Market Kevin Thom, New York University |
2:30-2:45 | Break |
2:45-4:00 | Maternal Race and Black Outcomes Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University |
4:00-5:15 | Does Less Income Mean Less Representation? Ebonya Washington, Yale University |
Dinner on your own | |
TUESDAY, JUNE 21 |
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Session #2: Crime |
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8:30-9:45 | Effects of Juvenile Incarceration: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges Joseph Doyle, MIT |
9:45-11:00 | Has the U.S. Prison Boom Changed the Age Distribution of the Prison Population? Shawn Bushway, SUNY at Albany |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
Session #3: Education |
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11:15-12:30 | School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement and Gender Differences in the Effect of Peer SES: Evidence from a Second Quasi-Experimental Case Study Thomas DiPrete, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
12:30-1:30 | Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
1:30-2:45 | Evaluating School Performance Using Longer-Term Measures of Student Outcomes David Deming, Carnegie Mellon University |
2:45-4:00 | Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas Rodney Andrews, University of Texas at Dallas |
Lampman Memorial Lecture Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue, Plenary Room, Room 1310 |
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4:30-6:00 | Poverty and Poor Health: Can Health Care Reform Break the Link? Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
6:00-7:00 | Reception in the Atrium |
Dinner on your own | |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 |
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Session #4: Long-Term Effects of the War on Poverty |
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8:00-9:15 | The War on Poverty’s Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan |
9:15-10:30 | The Appalachian Regional Development Act and Economic Change James Ziliak, University of Kentucky |
10:30-10:45 | Break |
10:45-12:00 | Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College |
12:00-1:15 | Childhood Exposure to the Food Stamp Program: Long-Run Health and Economic Outcomes Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University |
1:15-2:15 | Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
Session #5: Social Policies and Their Effects |
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2:15-3:30 | Effects of Prenatal Poverty on Infant Health: State Earned Income Tax Credits and Birth Weight Kate Strully, SUNY at Albany |
3:30-4:45 | Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Participants' Wages Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, University of Florida |
4:45-5:00 | Break |
5:00-6:15 | Universal-Free and Eligibility-Based School Breakfast Programs in Guilford County, North Carolina: Student Outcomes David Ribar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Dinner & Roundtable Porta Bella Restaurant, 425 North Frances Street |
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7:00-9:30 | Family Rewards: A Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Pilot Program in NYC James Riccio, MDRC |
THURSDAY, JUNE 23 |
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Session #6: Miscellaneous Topics |
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8:00-9:15 | How (and Why) Sociologists Should Care About Heritability: Evidence from Misclassified Twins Dalton Conley, New York University |
9:15-10:30 | Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy? Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario |
10:30-11:00 | Break (lunch will be served during the next two talks) |
11:00-12:15 | Assessing the Changing Relationship between Food Stamps and Work Jonathan Schwabish and Gregory Acs, Congressional Budget Office |
12:15-1:30 | Dynamic Optimization in Models for State Panel Data: A Cohort Panel Data Model of the Effects of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates Marjorie McElroy, Duke University |
1:30-2:00 | Closing remarks and discussion |
Financial support for the workshop is provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opinions and conclusions expressed at the Workshop are solely those of the author(s) and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of any agency of the Federal government.
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Posted: January 12, 2010 by DD
Last Updated:
April 1, 2012
by DD