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IRP Seminars
IRP Seminar Series, 2008–2009
IRP seminars cross disciplinary boundaries to bring the latest research by
top poverty scholars on and off campus to the Institute. They take place Thursdays,
12:15-1:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science Building (unless otherwise noted), and
are open to the public.
New seminar dates will be added as seminars are confirmed.
In addition to a variety of seminars on poverty research by IRP affiliates,
we will feature four special series:
This interdisciplinary series brings a distinguished group of scholars from other
universities to the UW–Madison campus to present their work on a broad range
of policy interventions to support healthy families.
This seminar series provides an opportunity for poverty researchers who recently
joined the ranks of IRP affiliates to introduce themselves and their research
interests and to present some of their recent work.
IRP is marking the 10th anniversary of its Visiting Scholars Program in 2008
by introducing an annual seminar series for participating poverty studies scholars.
The intent of the program, which is supported by the University, is to enhance
the research interests and resources available to scholars from underrepresented
racial and ethnic groups.
The annual New Perspectives in Social Policy seminar series seeks to reach beyond
familiar and well-explored fields of poverty research, to challenge accepted
paradigms, and to open paths to new research models and methodologies. The series
was launched in 2006, to mark the Institute's 40th anniversary.
IRP Seminar Calendar, Fall
2008
September 4, 2008
Welcome to the IRP Seminar Series for 2008–2009,
and General Introduction to My Research Goals and Expectations
for IRP
Timothy Smeeding, New IRP Director and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs, La Follette School of Public Policy
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
September 18, 2008
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
Improving Labor Market Outcomes and Transitions to Adulthood: Evidence from Career Academies
James Kemple, Director of the K-12 Education Policy Area,
MDRC
[PowerPoint
Presentation available in PDF format]
September 25, 2008
Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series
The Myth of Glass Ceiling: Evidence from a Stock-Flow Analysis of Workplace Authority Attainment
Zhen Zeng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University
of Wisconsin–Madison
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
October 2, 2008
Please note: This seminar has been rescheduled
for Monday, November 10, 2008
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
Vanishing Dreams: A 15 Year Reappraisal
Andrew M. Sum, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston
October 9, 2008
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
Application Behavior, Rank, and Targeted Recruitment: An Examination of Alternatives to Traditional Affirmative Action Policies
Rodney Andrews, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for Quantitative Social Science,
Harvard University, and IRP Visiting Scholar
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
October 16, 2008
The Political and Cultural Economy of Recovery:
Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Elbert H. Neese Professor of Economics, Beloit College
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
October 23, 2008
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
Working
Poverty in Michigan: Magnitudes, Socio-Demographic Determinants, and
Their Changes Between 1998 and 2007 (link to earlier version of
paper)
Udaya Wagle, Assistant Professor School of Public Affairs and Administration, Western Michigan University and IRP Visiting Scholar
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
October 30, 2008
Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series
The Impact of Fatness on Disability Insurance Application by the Non-Elderly
Maximilian Schmeiser, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science,
School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
Monday, November 10, 2008
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
Vanishing Dreams: A 15 Year Reappraisal
Andrew M. Sum, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston
November 13, 2008
Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series
Health Insurance and School Lunch: Covering Poor Kids and Families
Roberta Riportella, Professor and Chair of Consumer Science,
School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
[PowerPoint
Presentation available in PDF format, Please note: Data is actually
always in flux]
November 20, 2008
Components of Change in the Relative Size of the Foreign-Born Population, 1960-2000
Franklin D. Wilson, William H. Sewell-Bascom Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
[PowerPoint
Presentation available in PDF format]
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Parental Job Loss and Children's Educational
Attainment In Black and White Middle Class Families
Ariel Kalil, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director
of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of
Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Time: Noon
Location: La Follette School conference room
Co-Sponsored with LaFollette School of Public Affairs
December 4, 2008
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
The Evolution of Worker's Schedule Flexibility in the U.S. Labor Force: Evidence from the CPS
Fernando Lozano, Assistant Professor of Economics, Pomona College and IRP Visiting Scholar
[Paper available in PDF
format]
December 11, 2008
Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series
Migration, Poverty and Place in the Context of the Return Migration to the US South
Katherine Curtis, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
IRP Seminar Calendar, Spring 2009
January 22, 2009
Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series
'[He] Finds Himself in the Most Absolute Destitution:'
Disability and Poverty in the 'West,' 1802–1946
Walton
O. Schalick, Assistant Professor of Medical
History and Bioethics, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation,
Waisman Center, History of Science, and Pediatrics,
University of Wisconsin–Madison, and IRP Affiliate
January 29, 2009
Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series
Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
Scott W. Allard, Associate Professor, School of Social Service
Administration, University of Chicago, and IRP Affiliate
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
February 5, 2009
Please note: This Kathryn Edin's seminar
has been rescheduled for April 2, 2009
IRP Brown-Bag Discussion of Obama Stimulus Bill
12:00-1:15 p.m., 3470 Social Science Bldg. (IRP Conference Rm.)
E-mail Robin Snell if you plan to attend so we have enough chairs
February 12, 2009
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
Healthy Marriage: What Is it, and Why Does it Matter?
Kristin A. Moore, Senior Scholar & Program Area Director, Child Trends
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
February 19, 2009
Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series
Evaluating the Impact of Financial Education as Part of Public Assistance Programs: Evidence from a Field Experiment
J. Michael Collins, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science,
School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
February 26, 2009
Inequality the World Around from Rome to Today
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics,
Emeritus, Harvard University, and Honorary Fellow, Department of
Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
[Available in PDF format: Paper | PowerPoint
Presentation]
This event is co-sponsored by the La Follette School, with support
from the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
March 5, 2009
Obama and Antipoverty Policy: What Does the
Stimulus Bill Do to Fight Poverty, Educate Citizens, and Improve
Public Health?
Moderator: Tim Smeeding, IRP Director and Arts & Sciences
Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
Discussion Leaders:
Daniel R. Meyer, Professor of Social Work and IRP Affiliate,
Cash and Noncash Transfer Programs;
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Assistant Professor of Education Policy Studies
and Sociology, and IRP Affiliate, Aid to Education; and
Pamela Herd,
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology,
and IRP Affiliate, Health and Health Care Support
March 12, 2009
The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Low-Income Community College Students
Robert Fairlie, Professor of Economics, University of California,
Santa Cruz
This event is co-sponsored by the La Follette School, with support
from the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
[Available in PDF format: Paper | PowerPoint
Presentation]
March 26, 2009
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
Is Child Support the Problem or Solution?
Maria Cancian, Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work,
and IRP Affiliate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
April 2, 2009
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
Fragile Fathers: The Meaning of Family for Low-Income Unmarried Urban Men
Kathryn
Edin, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy
School
This event is co-sponsored with the Wisconsin Scholars Longitudinal Study (WSLS)
and Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER).
[PowerPoint Presentation
available in PDF format]
April 9, 2009
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
Children's Education and Parents' Socio-Economic
Status: Distinguishing the Impact of Fathers and Mothers
John
Micklewright, Professor of Social Sciences, University of
Southampton, Southampton United Kingdom and IRP Visitor
This event is co-sponsored by the La Follette School, with support
from the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
[PowerPoint
Presentation available in PDF format]
April 16, 2009
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
Family Instability and Child Outcomes
Sara McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University
[PowerPoint
Presentation available in PDF format]
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Segregation in Social Networks based on Acquaintanceship
and Trust
Thomas DiPrete, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Time: 12:20-1:30
Location: 4308 Social Science Building
This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Demography and
Ecology (CDE)
April 23, 2009
Are Poor Women Bearing the Brunt of the Eviction Crisis?
Matthew Desmond, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
May 7, 2009
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Class and Race Differences in Perceptions of Social Mobility and Academic Engagement
Angel
Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American
Studies; Faculty Associate: Office of Population Research, Center
for Research on Child Wellbeing; and Joint Degree Program in Social
Policy, Princeton University and IRP Visiting Scholar
May 14, 2009
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
Social Income Transfers and Income Poverty Alleviation
in the EU and in the USA: An Empirical Analysis of Effectiveness
of Poverty Reduction
Koen
Caminada,
Professor of Empirical Analysis of Tax and Social Policy, Leiden
University, the Netherlands, and IRP Visiting Scholar
[Research papers related to seminar: Working Paper No.
2008.06 and No.
2008.04]
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