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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.
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Event Type Research Areas Year Multimedia
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2024
February 12, 2024

Can Clinicians Detect Meaningful Treatment Effects in Their Practice?

Larry V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy, Co-Director of the Center for Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy and Practice, and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2024
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2024
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2024
January 22, 2024

Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety

Elisa Jácome, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2024
January 8, 2024

Mass Shootings or Mass Confusion?

 Lori Ann Post, Buehler Professor for Aging, Director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics, and IPR Associate
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2024
November 27, 2023

(Dis)trust in America

James Druckman, the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and Fellow
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
November 13, 2023

Striving for Upward Mobility in Adolescents: The School Context

Edith Chen, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of the Foundations of Health Research Center, and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy 2023
Colloquium Education Policy 2023
October 30, 2023

Revolving Door Laws and Political Selection

Silvia Vannutelli, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
October 23, 2023

Moving Towards Collaborative Community Partnership Research

Mesmin Destin, Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
October 16, 2023

The Tribal Constitutions Project

Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR and CNAIR Fellow
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
Colloquium Education Policy 2023
October 2, 2023

Students for Fair Admissions and the Ongoing Struggle over Counter-Majoritarianism in American Democracy

Anthony Chen, Associate Professor of Sociology and of Political Science (by courtesy) and IPR Fellow

Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
July 17, 2023 - July 27, 2023

Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials

Faculty 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; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2023
June 26, 2023 - June 30, 2023

Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2023 Summer Institute

Northwestern University, with support from the National Science Foundation is providing support for the 2023 Summer Research Training Institute on Improving Evaluations of Research and Development projects in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.

Workshops and Training Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy 2023
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality 2023
May 9, 2023

IPR Spring 2023 Distinguished Lecture: The Mythology of Racial Progress

Jennifer Richeson, the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception & Communication Lab at Yale University, and IPR Faculty Adjunct

Read the IPR story about this event  or watch a video of the talk.

Public Policy Lecture Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2023
May 8, 2023

What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the U.S.

Kirabo Jackson, the Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy, Professor of Economics, and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2023
May 5, 2023

Chicago Area Behavior Workshop

The 17th annual Chicago Area Political and Social Behavior Workshop (CAB) will be held on Friday, May 5, 2023, at Northwestern University. The goal of these yearly workshops is to bring together Chicago-area social scientists who share an interest in political and social behavior. Read more about the workshop here

The 2023 Chicago Area Behavior Workshop is sponsored by Northwestern’s Political Science Department, Institute for Policy Research, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and NORC’s AmeriSpeak®Panel. 

Workshops and Training Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
May 1, 2023

Modern Meta-Analysis

Elizabeth Tipton, Associate Professor of Statistics, Co-Director of the Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy and Practice (STEPP) Center, and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2023
April 24, 2023

Partisan Differences in the Use, Trust, and Funding of Science in the United States

Alexander Furnas, Research Assistant Professor at Kellogg's Center for Science of Science and Innovation and IPR Associate
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
April 10, 2023

What Is the University-Student Contract?

Max Schanzenbach, the Seigle Family Professor of Law and IPR Associate
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
April 3, 2023

Overperception of Moral Outrage in Online Social Networks Inflates Beliefs About Intergroup Hostility

William Brady, Donald P. Jacobs Scholar, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, and IPR Associate
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
March 6, 2023

Spatial Thinking and STEM Education: Why They Matter for Policy

David Uttal, Professor of Psychology and Education and Social Policy; Director of the  S.T.A.R. (Spatial Thinking and Reasoning) Lab
Colloquium Education Policy 2023
February 27, 2023

The Patina of Distrust: Misinformation in a Context of Generalized Skepticism

Pablo Boczkowski, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication Studies and IPR Associate; Founder and Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
February 20, 2023

IPR Winter 2023 Distinguished Lecture: Creating Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data

Raj Chetty, the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics and Director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University

Public Policy Lecture Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy 2023
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
February 6, 2023

How Has COVID-19 Impacted Children and Adolescents and How Are They Recovering?

  • Emma Adam, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, and Director of the COAST (Contexts of Adolescent Stress and Thriving) Lab
  • Jonathan Guryan, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy, IPR Fellow, and Chair of IPR's Program on Education Policy
  • Terri Sabol, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow, and Director of the Development, Early Education, and Policy (DEEP) Lab
  • Moderated by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, IPR Director and Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Colloquium Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2023
January 30, 2023

Navigating Privacy-Utility Trade-Offs for Public Data

Jessica Hullman, Ginni Rometty Professor, Associate Professor of Computer Science, and IPR Associate, and Co-Director of the Midwest Uncertainty Collective Lab

Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2023
January 23, 2023

Racial-Ethnic Hiring Discrimination, Immigration, and Labor Market Conditions

Lincoln Quillian, Professor of Sociology, IPR Fellow, and Chair of IPR's Program on Urban Policy and Community Development

Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2023
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2023
November 28, 2022

The Spillover Effects of Capital Trials on Prosecutorial Case Management

Alexander Lundberg, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and IPR Associate

 

Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
November 14, 2022

IPR 2022 Midterm Elections Panel: Analysis and Discussion with IPR Faculty

Stephanie Edgerly, Professor of Journalism and Associate Dean of Research, Medill and IPR Associate

Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow

Erik Nisbet, the Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis and Communication and IPR Associate

Moderated by James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow

 

Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
November 7, 2022

Stereotypes About Adolescence: Cultural Differences, Consequences, and Intervention

Yang Qu, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Associate

 

Colloquium Education Policy 2022
November 3, 2022

Fireside Chat: "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling"

Richard Reeves, the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, and Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative, Brookings Institution spoke about his new book Of Boys and Men in a fireside chat with IPR Director Diane Schanzenbach.

Read the IPR story about this event.

Special Event Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
October 31, 2022

Birth and Death in the United States

Hannes Schwandt, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow

 

Colloquium Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health 2022
Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health 2022
Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2022
October 10, 2022

Lawyers as Lobbyists: Regulatory Advocacy in American Finance

Brian Libgober, Assistant Professor of Political Science and of Law (by courtesy) and IPR Fellow

 

Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
October 5, 2022

IPR Fall 2022 Distinguished Lecture: Staying Resolute in the Battle Against Inflation

Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, spoke on "Staying Resolute in the Battle Against Inflation."

Read the IPR story about this event or watch the video.

Available Multimedia: Video Photos
Public Policy Lecture Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2022 Video; Photos
Colloquium Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2022
July 11, 2022 - July 15, 2022

Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2022 Summer Institute

Northwestern University, with support from the National Science Foundation is providing support for the 2022 Summer Research Training Institute on Improving Evaluations of Research and Development projects in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.

Workshops and Training Education Policy 2022
June 20, 2022 - June 30, 2022

Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials

Faculty 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 2022
June 6, 2022 - June 10, 2022

Summer Institute on Biological Approaches in the Social Sciences (SIBASS)

The Summer Institute in Biological and Social Sciences, or SIBASS, will take place from June 6–10 at Northwestern University. Led by IPR faculty with support from the Russell Sage Foundation, the workshop includes interdisciplinary lectures and hands-on exercises in integrating human biology measures into studies of just a few dozen participants up to nationally representative studies with thousands of participants. 

Postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty must apply by January 28, 2022. More information is available on the Russell Sage Foundation website here. Please note: Applications must be submitted via the Russell Sage Foundation online application portal. 

Workshops and Training Social Disparities and Health 2022
Colloquium Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2022
May 23, 2022

Identifying Drivers of Health Inequality in the United States

Greg Miller, Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of the Foundations of Health Research Center (FoHRC), and IPR Fellow; Alexa Freedman and Eric Finegood, IPR and (FoHRC) Postdoctoral Fellows
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2022
May 16, 2022

Clubs and Networks in Academic Reviewing

David Figlio, Dean, School of Education and Social Policy, and Orrington Lunt Professor
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
May 9, 2022

Pursuing Research on Racial Equity in a Polarized Environment

Adam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2022 Video
May 6, 2022 - May 6, 2022

Chicago Area Behavior Workshop

2022 Chicago Area Social and Political Behavior (CAB) Workshop

Friday, May 6, 2022

Guild Lounge, Scott Hall

601 University Place

Evanston Campus

Plans are for the workshop to be held in person, and we will be following Northwestern University's COVID-19 safety protocols for events.

The RSVP form has closed.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

2022 CAB schedule
Time Speaker / Event
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Registration opens, coffee and light breakfast available
10:00 – 10:05 a.m. Welcome by James Druckman, Northwestern University (IPR and Political Science)
10:05 – 11:05 a.m.

The Role of Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Voter Decision-Making” by Tabitha Bonilla, Northwestern University (IPR and SESP)

Moderator: Stephanie Edgerly, Northwestern University (Medill and IPR)

11:05 – 11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Estimating the Returns to Political Microtargeting” by Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator: Sarah Maxey, Loyola University Chicago

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Mentoring Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Rhetorical Stratagems of Autocratic Leaders in Democratic Systems” by Susan Stokes, University of Chicago

Moderator: Avital Livny, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

2:30 – 2:40 p.m. Brief Overview of NORC’s AmeriSpeak®Panel
2:40 – 3:00 p.m. Break (Junior Scholars set up posters)
3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Junior Scholar Poster Session
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

How Can Government Encourage COVID-19 Vaccination?” by Jake Bowers, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Moderator: Erin Rossiter, University of Notre Dame

5:15 – 7:15 p.m. Dinner

 

The 2022 Chicago Area Behavior Workshop is sponsored by Northwestern’s Political Science Department, Institute for Policy Research, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and NORC’s AmeriSpeak®Panel. 
 

Workshops and Training Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
May 2, 2022

The Role of Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Voter Decision-Making

Tabitha Bonilla, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022 Video
April 25, 2022

Fair Juries

Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and IPR Associate

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022 Video
April 18, 2022

Thinking with Data Visualizations, Fast and Slow

Steven Franconeri, Professor of Psychology and IPR Associate

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2022 Video
April 11, 2022

Structural Racism, School Disadvantage, and Adolescent Depression: Development of New Indices for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and Beyond

Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow, and Jessica Polos, IPR Postdoctoral Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2022 Video
April 4, 2022

(Affective) Polarization in America: When It Matters Politically and What It Means for Democracy

James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022 Video
March 14, 2022

Fighting Phantoms: Disagreement vs. Disdain in the American Body Politic

Eli Finkel, Professor of Psychology and Management and Organizations and IPR Associate

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022 Video
March 7, 2022

Debtors and American Political Development

Chloe Thurston, Assistant Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2022
February 28, 2022

How Online Participation Inequalities (Probably) Reinforce Stratification

Aaron Shaw, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and IPR Associate
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
February 21, 2022

The Lasting Impacts of School Shootings

Molly Schnell, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
February 14, 2022

The Downstream Effects of Endorsing Social Mediated Claims on COVID-Related Attitudes and Behaviors

Erik Nisbet, Owen L. Coon Chair in Policy Analysis and Communication, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and IPR Associate

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022 Video
February 7, 2022

U.S. High School Student Outcomes in 1960 and Universal Pre-K, 1943–46

Joseph Ferrie, Professor and Department Chair of Economics and IPR Associate

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Education Policy 2022 Video
January 31, 2022

Norm-Based Messaging as an Anti-Corruption Tool

Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2022
January 24, 2022

Family Norms in Flux

Julia Behrman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2022 Video
January 10, 2022

M(ai)cro: Centering the Macrosystem in Racial Identity Development

Onnie Rogers, Assistant Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2022 Video
December 8, 2021

N3 2021 Symposium on Street Outreach

As the country wrestles with a rise in gun violence and urgent calls to rely less on harsh criminal justice strategies to reduce crime, street outreach is becoming an increasingly central violence prevention strategy. This symposium, Advancing the Science and Practice of Street Outreach: Lessons Learned and the Future of Street Outreach in Illinois, highlighted emerging research on outreach, featuring the work of local experts who are building the infrastructure to strengthen the field.

Read the IPR story about this event and see videos of the symposium.

Available Multimedia: Video
Special Event Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021 Video
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2021
November 29, 2021

Personality Traits and Toleration of Neuropathology in Older Adulthood

Dan Mroczek, Professor of Psychology and IPR Associate

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2021 Video
November 15, 2021

The Affordable Care Act and Critical Periods for Cardiovascular Health Intervention

Lindsay Pool, Research Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2021 Video
November 8, 2021

Who Shows Up in Primary Elections and Why It Matters for Policymaking

Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow

See a video of the talk.

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021 Video
November 1, 2021

Adaptability and the Pivot Penalty in Science

Benjamin Jones, Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Strategy, and IPR Associate 

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021 Video
October 25, 2021

The Promise of a School-Based, Trauma-Informed Group Therapy Intervention for Young Women

Jonathan Guryan, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy and IPR Fellow

Colloquium Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy 2021
October 18, 2021

Understanding and Encouraging White American Parent-Child Conversations About Race

Sylvia Perry, Associate Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2021 Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021
October 4, 2021

Abundance: Living in a World of Information Plenty

Pablo Boczkowski, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication Studies and IPR Associate

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021 Video
September 27, 2021

Breadth vs. Depth: Learning About Education from Academic Specialization

Ofer Malamud, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2021 Video
July 19, 2021 - July 23, 2021

Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2021 Summer Institute

Northwestern University, with support from the National Science Foundation is providing support for the 2021 Summer Research Training Institute on Improving Evaluations of Research and Development projects in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.

Workshops and Training Education Policy 2021
June 7, 2021

Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation in Economics

Lori Beaman, Associate Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow

Rob Voigt, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and IPR Associate

Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2021
May 24, 2021

The Early Childhood Education and Care Enterprise in the 21st Century

Terri Sabol, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Education Policy 2021
May 17, 2021

What Have We Learned in 20 Years of Randomized Trials in Education?

Larry Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Education and Social Policy, Professor of Psychology and Medical Social Sciences, and IPR Fellow

Elizabeth Tipton, Associate Professor of Statistics and IPR Fellow

Colloquium Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2021
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy 2021
May 7, 2021

Chicago Area Behavior Workshop

2021 Chicago Area social and political Behavior (CAB) Workshop - Schedule

10:00-10:05 a.m. - "Welcome" by James Druckman, Northwestern University and IPR 

10:05-11:05 a.m. -“The Color of our Politics and the Politics of Our Color,” by Mara Ostfeld, University of Michigan

11:10-11:40 a.m. - Social Time

11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. -“TBD” by Cindy KamVanderbilt University

1:00-1:30 p.m. - Virtual Mentoring Lunch

1:40-2:30 p.m. - Junior Scholar Poster Session

2:45-3:45 p.m. -“Improving and Integrating Global Diversity Estimates Using Transparent Methods,” by  Avital Livny, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3:50-4:15 p.m. - Social Time

4:30-5:30 p.m. -“Interdependent Selves: Experimental Investigation of the Political Effects of Collaboration” by  Mary McGrath, Northwestern University and IPR

Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 27. 

The 2021 Chicago Area Behavior Workshop is sponsored by Northwestern’s Political Science Department, Institute for Policy Research, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and NORC’s AmeriSpeak®Panel. 

Workshops and Training Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021
Colloquium Education Policy 2021
Colloquium Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health 2021
April 12, 2021

The Human Microbiome and Health Inequities

Katherine Amato, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and IPR Associate
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2021
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021
March 8, 2021

When Democracy Exaggerates Difference

Monica Prasad, Professor of Sociology, WCAS Board of Visitors Professor, and IPR Fellow 
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2021
Colloquium Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2021
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy 2021
February 15, 2021

Network Canvas: A Tool for Capturing Complex Data

Michelle Birkett, Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine and IPR Associate
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2021
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; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health 2021
February 1, 2021

Building a More Open Justice System

Rachel 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

Sarath Sanga, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Strategy Department, Kellogg School of Management (Courtesy)

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2021 Video
January 25, 2021

Moving From Buzzwords to Evidence for Educational Policy and Practice

Mesmin Destin, Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Education Policy 2021
January 11, 2021

Before Bakke: The Hidden History of the Diversity Rationale

Anthony Chen, Associate Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy 2021
November 23, 2020

When Do Citizens Grease the Wheel? The Demand Side of Bribery

by Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2020
November 16, 2020

How Stress Gets Under the Skin

by Robin Nusslock, Associate Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow

See a video of the talk. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2020 Video
November 9, 2020

IPR 2020 Post-Election Panel

Panelists:

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. 

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2020 Video
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.

Available Multimedia: Video
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy 2020 Video
October 26, 2020

How the Punishment of Black Women and Girls Affects Our Democracy

by Sally Nuamah, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2020
October 19, 2020

Diagnostic Reform as Global Health Policymaking

by Steven Epstein, John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Chair of Sociology, and IPR Associate
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2020
October 12, 2020

The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19

by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Margaret Walker Alexander Professor and IPR Director and Fellow
Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy 2020
October 5, 2020

2Gen Education Programs for Parents and Children

by Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Frances Willard Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow, and Teresa Eckrich Sommer, IPR Research Professor

Colloquium Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2020
July 10, 2020

Chicago Area Behavior Workshop

2020 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
Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Peterson, Iowa State University
Thomas Rudolph, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Alvin Tillery, Northwestern University
Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame

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
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
Colloquium Urban Policy and Community Development 2020
May 18, 2020

Researching Adolescent Stress in the Time of COVID-19

Emma Adam, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
Colloquium Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy 2020
May 11, 2020

Disease Spread and Human Capital

Hannes Schwandt, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow

Colloquium Education Policy 2020
May 4, 2020

Surveying the Social and Cultural Impact of COVID-19

Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow

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Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2020 Video
April 27, 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality

 Matthias Doepke, HSBC Research Professor of Economics and IPR Associate

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Colloquium Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2020 Video
April 20, 2020

COVID-19 and Public Policy Responses by Government: Key Emerging Legal Issues

Daniel B. Rodriguez, Harold Washington Professor of Law and IPR Associate

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Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2020 Video
April 13, 2020

Estimating the COVID-19 Infection Rate: Anatomy of an Inference Problem

Charles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow

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Colloquium Social Disparities and Health 2020 Video; Transcript
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.

 

Colloquium 2020
March 2, 2020

Operationalizing Research to Improve Health Inequities: The Collective Power of One Northwestern

Operationalizing 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
IPR Associate

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.

 

Colloquium 2020
February 26, 2020

Special Lecture - The Greatest Anti-Poverty Success Story I Know

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 this IPR lecture, he discussed his reporting on Tita and her family, global migration, and poverty from his book A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves.

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Special Event Poverty, Race and Inequality 2020
February 24, 2020

Measuring the World’s Experiences with Water: Implications for Science, Policy and... Northwestern

Sera 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
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
February 17, 2020

What’s Anger Got to Do with It? Limits to Consumer and Employee Mobilization

Brayden 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
February 10, 2020

Who Are the Game Changers? Why We Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence

Jennifer Tackett, Professor of Psychology and IPR Associate
Colloquium 2020
February 5, 2020

STEPP Colloquium - Publication Biases in Replication Studies

James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and IPR Fellow

Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2020
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
Colloquium 2020
January 29, 2020

IPR/CNAIR Colloquium - What Drives Native American Poverty?

Across the United States, 1 in 3 Native Americans are living in poverty, with a median income of $23,000 a year. These numbers from the American Community Survey highlight the stark income inequality the nation’s first peoples face. During this colloquium, IPR sociologist Beth Redbird and CNAIR fellow highlighted her ongoing research looking at what drives Native American poverty. 

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Colloquium Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality 2020
January 27, 2020

The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

Matthias Doepke, HSBC Research Professor of Economics and IPR Associate

 

Colloquium 2020
Colloquium Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 2020
Colloquium 2020
January 6, 2020

How Institutions and Social Identity Affect Policy Change: The Case of College Sports

by James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow and Associate Director
Colloquium Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2020
November 25, 2019

The Role of Campaign Promises in Voter Decision Making

by Tabitha Bonilla, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
Colloquium 2019
November 21, 2019

Janet Currie: Child Health as Human Capital

Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Co-Director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing spoke on the importance of children’s health, both mental and physical, to their long-term academic and labor outcomes. 

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Public Policy Lecture Education Policy 2019
November 20, 2019

How Do School Districts Use Evidence? A Discussion With Paul Goren and Cynthia Coburn

by Paul Goren, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University and Cynthia Coburn, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy Learning Sciences
Colloquium 2019
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
November 11, 2019

The Violent Bias in the Study of Civil War

by Ana Arjona, Associate Professor, Political Science and IPR Faculty Associate
Colloquium 2019
November 4, 2019

Challenges and Opportunities at the Interface of the Biological and Social Sciences

by 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
Colloquium 2019
October 30, 2019

Designing Research to Maximize Impact on Policy Decisions and on Practice

by 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
Colloquium 2019
October 28, 2019

Beyond Detention: Key Findings from the Northwestern Juvenile Project

by 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
Colloquium 2019
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
October 21, 2019

Race in the Machine

by Quincy Stewart, Associate Professor of Sociology and IPR Faculty Fellow
Colloquium 2019
October 14, 2019

The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating

by Hannes Schwandt, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Faculty Fellow.
Colloquium 2019
Colloquium 2019
October 7, 2019

Adolescent Stress: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions

by 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
Colloquium 2019
June 6, 2019

Evictions in America

Matthew 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. 

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Public Policy Lecture Poverty, Race and Inequality 2019
June 6, 2019 - June 7, 2019

IPR@50 Anniversary Conference

IPR@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. 

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Special Event 2019
February 20, 2019

Jocelyn Samuels: "LGBT Rights: Threats and Opportunities"

Jocelyn 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. 

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Public Policy Lecture Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2019
November 7, 2018

Arthur C. Brooks: "Reuniting America in a Time of Extreme Polarization"

Arthur 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. 

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Public Policy Lecture 2018
April 26, 2018

The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier

Fay 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. 

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Public Policy Lecture Politics, Institutions and Public Policy 2018
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
February 16, 2017

Kathryn Edin

In her book, $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, sociologist 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.

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Public Policy Lecture 2017
May 17, 2016

D.C. Research Briefing: Ready for School, Ready for Life

Over 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
December 4, 2015

Madam President? Women Leaders: Their Potential, Their Challenges

Join 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.
Policy Research Briefing 2015
May 19, 2015

Education in the Digital Age

Will 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.
Policy Research Briefing 2015
August 9, 2010 - August 13, 2010

Research Training Institute for Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis

Faculty 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
July 25, 2010 - August 6, 2010

Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials 2010

Faculty 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
July 7, 2008 - July 18, 2008

Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials 2008

Faculty 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