Past Events
IPR organizes a variety of events across the year, including distinguished lectures, policy research briefings, and its signature Monday colloquium series. Recordings and materials for some previous IPR events can also be found below.| Event | Type | Research Areas | Year | Multimedia |
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February 15, 2021
Network Canvas: A Tool for Capturing Complex DataMichelle Birkett, Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health | 2021 | |
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February 8, 2021
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Costs of Upward Mobility?Edith Chen, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, Professor of Psychology, IPR Fellow, and Co-Director of the Foundations of Health Research Center |
Colloquium | Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies | 2021 | |
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February 1, 2021
Building a More Open Justice SystemRachel Davis Mersey, Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Moody College, University of Texas at Austin, and IPR Faculty Adjunct Adam Pah, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations; and Associate Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Kellogg See a video of the talk.
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Colloquium | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2021 | Video |
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January 25, 2021
Moving From Buzzwords to Evidence for Educational Policy and PracticeMesmin Destin, Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Education Policy | 2021 | |
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January 11, 2021
Before Bakke: The Hidden History of the Diversity RationaleAnthony Chen, Associate Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy | 2021 | |
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November 23, 2020
When Do Citizens Grease the Wheel? The Demand Side of Bribery |
Colloquium | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2020 | |
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November 16, 2020
How Stress Gets Under the Skinby Robin Nusslock, Associate Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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Colloquium | Social Disparities and Health | 2020 | Video |
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November 9, 2020
IPR 2020 Post-Election PanelPanelists: Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor Professor of Economics Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow Erik Nisbet, Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis & Communication, Director of the Center for Communication & Public Policy, and IPR Associate Chloe Thurston, Assistant Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow Moderator: Daniel Galvin, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow See a video of the panel.
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Colloquium | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2020 | Video |
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November 2, 2020
College for All: Opportunity or Obligation?by James Rosenbaum, Professor of Education and Social Policy, and of Sociology (by courtesy), and IPR Fellow; and Ashley Uphoff, IPR Research Study Coordinator See a video of the talk.
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Colloquium | Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy | 2020 | Video |
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October 26, 2020
How the Punishment of Black Women and Girls Affects Our Democracy |
Colloquium | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality | 2020 | |
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October 19, 2020
Diagnostic Reform as Global Health Policymakingby Steven Epstein, John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Chair of Sociology, and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Social Disparities and Health | 2020 | |
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October 12, 2020
The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19 |
Colloquium | Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies | 2020 | |
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October 5, 2020
2Gen Education Programs for Parents and Childrenby Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Frances Willard Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow, and Teresa Eckrich Sommer, IPR Research Professor |
Colloquium | Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies | 2020 | |
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July 10, 2020
Chicago Area Behavior Workshop2020 Chicago Area social and political Behavior (CAB) Workshop - Schedule 10:55 - 11:00 a.m. - "Welcome" by James Druckman, Northwestern University and IPR 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - “Will COVID-19 Impact Political Engagement?” by Beth Redbird, Northwestern University and IPR 12:15-1:00 p.m. - Virtual Mentoring Lunch 1:15-2:15 p.m. - "Reactions to Information About Racial Disparities in COVID-19,” by LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Princeton University 2:30-3:30 p.m. - Discussion Panel: Working in a Changed Environment and Workplace The presentations and panel will be in a Zoom webinar format, and registration is required. You will need to create a Zoom account if you do not have one already to register. Sponsored by: The 2020 Chicago Area Behavior Workshop is sponsored by Northwestern’s Political Science Department, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Institute for Policy Research. |
Workshops and Training | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2020 | |
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June 1, 2020
Managing Two Epidemics: How Street Outreach Workers Are Addressing Gun Violence and COVID-19 Andrew Papachristos, Professor of Sociology, IPR Fellow, and Director of the Northwestern Neighborhood and Networks (N3) Lab
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Colloquium | Urban Policy and Community Development | 2020 | |
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May 18, 2020
Researching Adolescent Stress in the Time of COVID-19Emma Adam, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies | 2020 | |
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May 11, 2020
Disease Spread and Human CapitalHannes Schwandt, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow |
Colloquium | Education Policy | 2020 | |
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May 4, 2020
Surveying the Social and Cultural Impact of COVID-19Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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Colloquium | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2020 | Video |
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April 27, 2020
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender EqualityMatthias Doepke, HSBC Research Professor of Economics and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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Colloquium | Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2020 | Video |
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April 20, 2020
COVID-19 and Public Policy Responses by Government: Key Emerging Legal IssuesDaniel B. Rodriguez, Harold Washington Professor of Law and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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Colloquium | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2020 | Video |
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April 13, 2020
Estimating the COVID-19 Infection Rate: Anatomy of an Inference ProblemCharles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Social Disparities and Health; Performance Measurement and Rewards | 2020 | Video; Transcript |
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March 9, 2020
The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform"The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform" by Matthew Notowidigdo, Associate Professor of Economics and IPR Faculty Fellow Abstract: A more generous consumer bankruptcy system provides greater insurance against financial risks, but it may also raise the cost of credit to consumers. We study this trade-off using the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), which raised the costs of filing for bankruptcy. We identify the effects of BAPCPA on borrowing costs by exploiting variation in the effects of the reform on bankruptcy risk across credit-score segments. Using a combination of administrative records, credit reports, and proprietary market-research data, we find that the reform reduced bankruptcy filings, and reduced the likelihood that an uninsured hospitalization received bankruptcy relief by 70 percent. BAPCPA led to a decrease in credit card interest rates, with an implied pass-through rate of 60–75 percent. Overall, BAPCPA decreased the gap in offered interest rates between prime and subprime consumers by roughly 10 percent.
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Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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March 2, 2020
Operationalizing Research to Improve Health Inequities: The Collective Power of One NorthwesternOperationalizing Research to Improve Health Inequities: The Collective Power of One Northwestern by Melissa Simon, George H. Gardner, MD, Professor of Clinical Gynecology, Vice Chair for Clinical Research, and In this talk, Simon will discuss some basics on the current state of health equity and pull in her own body of work in Chicago that intersects scientific rigor with policy creation and community partnership and action. Simon will discuss how we as an entire University can leverage the depth and breadth of talent to scale impact on improving health equity via better integrating and operationalizing our collective scholarship.
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Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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February 26, 2020
Special Lecture - The Greatest Anti-Poverty Success Story I KnowJason DeParle, New York Times reporter and author of "A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century" New York Times reporter Jason DeParle met 40-year-old Tita Comodas in 1987 when she welcomed him into her home in Leveriza, a Manila shantytown. Eight months of sleeping on her floor turned into a lifelong friendship. DeParle went on to trace the family’s economic and social trajectory over three generations —and with it, the rise of global migration. During that time, nine of Tita’s 11 siblings and 24 of her 41 nieces and nephews left the Philippines to work abroad. Rosalie, Tita’s second daughter and a nurse, eventually achieves her most cherished dream—one held by many—of emigrating to the United States with her family. In his latest book, A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle recounts the family’s fortunes—and misfortunes—within the larger contexts of global migration and U.S. immigration policy. He follows, and celebrates, Rosalie and her family as they climb out of Manila’s “shantytown poverty” and into Galveston’s suburban middle class. In doing so, he captures their immense sacrifices and the remarkable benefits of immigration and assimilation to both the newly arrived and the nation itself. |
Special Event | Poverty, Race and Inequality | 2020 | |
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February 24, 2020
Measuring the World’s Experiences with Water: Implications for Science, Policy and... NorthwesternSera Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow Abstract: Problems with water quality and quantity are increasing in frequency and severity throughout the world, including in the United States. High-resolution, globally comparable data have been extremely helpful for understanding the human health impact of other health issues, e.g., food insecurity, but have not existed for water. To fill this gap, Young led the development of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) scale, the first cross-culturally equivalent way of measuring water access and use (hwise.org). The HWISE Scale can be used to estimate prevalence of household water insecurity and to investigate its causes and consequences. The HWISE Scale is currently being implemented globally, including by the Gallup World Poll, to benchmark water access and use. Her presentation will conclude by discussing the policy implications of these data for both Northwestern University and the global community. |
Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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February 21, 2020
Gerrymandering: What Is It, How Can We Measure It, and What Can We Do About It?Jeanne Clelland, Professor of Mathematics, University of Colorado-Boulder Abstract: Gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing legislative districts so that one political party wins a disproportionate number of seats relative to their share of the electorate. But how can we tell whether or not districts have been drawn fairly? This is a legal question and, increasingly, a mathematical one, but the mathematical tools used to measure gerrymandering are relatively new and are still evolving rapidly. One promising approach involves using computational and statistical tools to compare a specific districting plan to an “ensemble” consisting of a large number of potential districting plans. This approach, referred to as “outlier analysis,” has the advantage of taking into account the inherent political geography of a region in a way that simpler measures cannot, and it has already begun to play a role in major court cases regarding redistricting in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. In this talk, Clelland will describe how gerrymandering works and some of the mathematical tools that are being developed to detect it, with a focus on outlier analysis. She will also talk about an ongoing effort to collect data and perform this type of analysis for as many states as possible in advance of the next round of congressional redistricting in 2021. |
Colloquium | Social Disparities and Health | 2020 | |
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February 17, 2020
What’s Anger Got to Do with It? Limits to Consumer and Employee MobilizationBrayden King, Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment, Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg, and IPR Associate Abstract: Theories about social movements assert that the mobilization of “reference publics”—such as consumers or employees—is a necessary condition for generating movement-led social change. These publics are thought to be activated by emotional triggers, such as anger. The studies in this presentation question this assumption. One set of studies examines whether boycotts actually change consumers’ behavior, and another set of studies assesses whether anger motivates employees to support movements in their workplace. King and his co-authors conclude that the mechanisms that explain the mass mobilization of movements may be ineffective in generating the support of reference publics such as consumers and employees. |
Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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February 10, 2020
Who Are the Game Changers? Why We Need to Study Leadership in AdolescenceJennifer Tackett, Professor of Psychology and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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February 5, 2020
STEPP Colloquium - Publication Biases in Replication StudiesJames Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Quantitative Methods for Policy Research | 2020 | |
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February 3, 2020
Are Earthquake-Shaking Forecasts Good Enough to Rely on for Planning and Policy?Bruce Spencer, Professor of Statistics and IPR Fellow; Seth Stein, William Deering Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Leah Saldith and James Neely, IPR Graduate Research Assistants, Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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January 29, 2020
IPR/CNAIR Colloquium - What Drives Native American Poverty?Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology; IPR Fellow; and CNAIR Fellow (2019-20)
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Colloquium | Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality | 2020 | |
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January 27, 2020
The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer EffectsMatthias Doepke, HSBC Research Professor of Economics and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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January 15, 2020
Thinking with Visualizations, Fast and SlowSteven Franconeri, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
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Colloquium | Quantitative Methods for Policy Research | 2020 | |
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January 13, 2020
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Healthby Molly Schnell, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | 2020 | ||
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January 6, 2020
How Institutions and Social Identity Affect Policy Change: The Case of College Sportsby James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow and Associate Director
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Colloquium | Politics, Institutions and Public Policy | 2020 | |
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November 25, 2019
The Role of Campaign Promises in Voter Decision Making |
Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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November 21, 2019
Janet Currie: Child Health as Human Capitalby Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Co-Director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing |
Public Policy Lecture | Education Policy | 2019 | |
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November 20, 2019
How Do School Districts Use Evidence? A Discussion With Paul Goren and Cynthia Coburnby Paul Goren, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University and Cynthia Coburn, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy Learning Sciences
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Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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November 18, 2019
'It’s the Guys that Determine That': Feminism and Sorority Ranking at Central U.by Simone Ispa-Landa, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow |
Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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November 11, 2019
The Violent Bias in the Study of Civil War |
Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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November 4, 2019
Challenges and Opportunities at the Interface of the Biological and Social Sciencesby Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology, IPR Fellow, and Director of IPR's Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health
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Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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October 30, 2019
Designing Research to Maximize Impact on Policy Decisions and on Practiceby Ronald Ackermann, Senior Associate, Dean for Public Health: Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM); Professor of Medicine and Medical Social Sciences; and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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October 28, 2019
Beyond Detention: Key Findings from the Northwestern Juvenile Projectby Linda Teplin, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and IPR Faculty Associate
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Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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October 23, 2019
“Empowering Electoral Reform: Quantifying Gerrymandering via Multi-Objective Optimization and Statistical Models”by Wendy Tam Cho, Professor of Political Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Asian American Studies, and Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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October 21, 2019
Race in the Machine |
Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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October 14, 2019
The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheatingby Hannes Schwandt, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Faculty Fellow.
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Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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October 9, 2019
Estimating Replicability: Prospective and Retrospective Approachesby Blake McShane, Associate Professor of Marketing, Kellogg, Northwestern University |
Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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October 7, 2019
Adolescent Stress: Causes, Consequences, and Interventionsby Emma Adam, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow, and Sarah Collier Villaume, Human Development and Social Policy Doctoral Student and IPR Graduate Research Assistant
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Colloquium | 2019 | ||
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June 6, 2019
Matthew DesmondMatthew Desmond, the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, shared as part of the IPR@50 conference some of the latest results from his Eviction Lab, which created the first-ever national database of eviction records. |
Public Policy Lecture | Poverty, Race and Inequality | 2019 | |
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June 6, 2019
- June 7, 2019
IPR@50 Anniversary ConferenceIPR@50 was a year-long celebration that involved public lectures by IPR faculty, former PhD students, and others and culminated in a two-day conference on June 6–7, 2019. IPR’s 50th anniversary offered a unique moment to take stock of what we know about key research areas, to look at how IPR research has contributed to that knowledge base, and to chart a course for studying it in the years to come. |
Special Event | 2019 | ||
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February 20, 2019
Jocelyn Samuels: LGBT Rights: Threats and OpportunitiesJocelyn Samuels, the executive director of the LGBT-focused Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law, spoke about how social science research can have an impact on LGBT health and policy issues. |
Public Policy Lecture | 2019 | ||
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November 7, 2018
Arthur C. BrooksArthur C. Brooks, former president of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, discussed how political polarization threatens not only the public discourse but America’s social fabric. |
Public Policy Lecture | 2018 | ||
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April 26, 2018
Fay Lomax CookFay Lomax Cook, then-assistant director of the National Science Foundation and IPR fellow and former director, spoke about the NSF’s “10 Big Ideas” regarding the future of work in America, including dealing with data collection, climate change, and advances in genetic science. |
Public Policy Lecture | 2018 | ||
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March 9, 2018
Crime In Chicago: What Does The Research Tell Us?Chicago has a national reputation for violence. Even though shooting deaths dropped in the city last year, 664 people still died from gun violence. Research from IPR experts not only explains some of the city's most enduring problems, but it also shows that it is possible to find viable solutions to combat the city's violence. Join IPR and the Union League of Chicago's Public Affairs Committee for presentations and discussion on what the research reveals about crime in Chicago. |
Policy Research Briefing | Education Policy | 2018 | |
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February 16, 2017
Kathryn EdinIn her book, $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Kathryn Edin illuminates a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor. |
Public Policy Lecture | 2017 | ||
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February 16, 2017
Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized TrialsFaculty Organizers: Larry Hedges and Elizabeth Tipton This two-week, in-depth training institute covers a range of specific topics in the design, implementation, and analysis of data for use in cluster-randomized trials, allowing researchers to account for the group effects of teachers and classrooms when measuring an intervention’s effects on individual student achievement. Support comes from the National Center for Education Research, housed in the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. |
Workshops and Training | Education Policy | 2017 | |
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May 17, 2016
D.C. Research Briefing: Ready for School, Ready for LifeOver the years, many efforts have been made to improve early-learning environments as means to boost Americans' job and life prospects. Several new studies are fueling thought-provoking ideas as to what policymakers, parents, and researchers should consider when retooling early-education policies. |
Policy Research Briefing | 2016 | ||
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December 4, 2015
Madam President? Women Leaders: Their Potential, Their ChallengesJoin our faculty experts as they examine the ways in which women do, and do not differ, from men in terms of leadership; discuss interventions that increased the number of women in leadership roles; and assess how women might better make themselves heard in public discourse.
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Policy Research Briefing | 2015 | ||
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May 19, 2015
Education in the Digital AgeWill high-tech tools improve or exacerbate existing inequities in education? Join our three panelists as they talk about their research on the impact of technology on learning.
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Policy Research Briefing | 2015 | ||
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August 9, 2010
- August 13, 2010
Research Training Institute for Quasi-Experimental Design and AnalysisFaculty Organizers: Thomas D. Cook and William Shadish The Summer Research Training Institute for Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis was designed to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions. The original workshops were co-organized by Thomas Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair Emeritus in Ethics and Justice and Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, and William Shadish, Professor, Founding Faculty, and Chair, Psychological Sciences Section University of California, Merced (now deceased). |
Workshops and Training | Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research | 2010 | |
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July 25, 2010
- August 6, 2010
Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials 2010Faculty Organizers: Larry Hedges This two-week, in-depth training institute covered a range of specific topics in the design, implementation, and analysis of data for use in cluster-randomized trials, allowing researchers to account for the group effects of teachers and classrooms when measuring an intervention’s effects on individual student achievement. Support comes from the National Center for Education Research, housed in the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. |
Workshops and Training | Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy | 2010 | |
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July 7, 2008
- July 18, 2008
Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials 2008Faculty Organizers: Larry Hedges This two-week, in-depth training institute covers a range of specific topics in the design, implementation, and analysis of data for use in cluster-randomized trials, allowing researchers to account for the group effects of teachers and classrooms when measuring an intervention’s effects on individual student achievement. Support comes from the National Center for Education Research, housed in the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. |
Workshops and Training | Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research | 2008 |