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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June 2, 2025
Drivers of Racial Differences in C-SectionsBy Molly Schnell, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow.
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 19, 2025
Adolescent Development of Motivated BehaviorBy Katie Insel, Assistant Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow.
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 12, 2025
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Mixed Methods Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood ChoiceBy Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University
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Colloquium | Neighborhoods and Community Safety; Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 5, 2025
IPR Panel: Research at the Policy TableJoin us to learn from local experts as we discuss how research is used (or not used) in designing and implementing public policy, and how researchers can better connect with the policy sphere.
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 28, 2025
IPR Panel: Celebrating the Work of John McKnightPanelists: Dan Lewis, Rob Donahue, Andy Gordon |
Colloquium | Methods for Policy Research | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 21, 2025
Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Life ExpectancyBy Hannes Schwandt, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow.
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 14, 2025
Opening the Human Blackbox in AI-Assisted DecisionsBy Jessica Hullman, Ginni Rometty Professor of Computer Science and IPR Fellow.
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 7, 2025
A New Paradigm for Free Speech on CampusBy Eli Finkel, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Management and Organizations, and Morton O. Schapiro IPR Faculty Fellow.
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making; Neighborhoods and Community Safety | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 2, 2025
Distinguished Lecture: Steven Chu (Stanford) - The Challenges in Getting to Net-Zero Global Greenhouse EmissionsSteven Chu, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Professor of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Nobel Laureate; and Former U.S. Secretary of Energy. Read the IPR story about the event or watch a video of the talk. |
Public Policy Lecture | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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March 10, 2025
Regulating Wage Theft? The Misalignment of Powers and Practices in Labor Standards EnforcementBy Dan Galvin, professor of political science and IPR fellow
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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March 3, 2025
Recent Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Research: Team Science with the Northwestern Maternal and Fetal Medicine DivisionBy Joe Feinglass, research professor of medicine and IPR associate
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 24, 2025
Meetings, Visibility, and Gender Inequality at WorkBy Kate Weisshaar, associate professor of sociology and IPR fellow
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Colloquium | Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 17, 2025
Attendance Metrics in the Lonely School: A Case Study of Chronic Absenteeism at Franklin HighBy Simone Ispa-Landa, associate professor of human development and social policy and of sociology and IPR fellow
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 10, 2025
Racial Disparities in Preschool Classroom Practices: Building a New Multi-Measure ToolkitBy Sandra Waxman, Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology, professor of cognitive psychology, and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 3, 2025
Using Computational Approaches to Understand the Social and Structural Drivers of HealthBy Michelle Birkett, Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health) and Preventive Medicine and IPR Faculty Associate
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 27, 2025
The Narrative of Racial ProgressBy Michael Kraus, professor of psychology and Morton O. Schapiro IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 13, 2025
AI Policymaking: A Tale of Two DomainsBy Barry O'Sullivan, visiting professor in computer science, McCormick School of Engineering
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 18, 2024
Quantifying Racial Disparities in Media Representations of Gun ViolenceRob Voigt, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science (by courtesy) and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Methods for Policy Research; Policy Discourse and Decision Making; Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 11, 2024
IPR Panel: The 2024 Election and Threats to DemocracyOn the heels of a historic and unprecedented presidential election, join our four IPR faculty experts for a timely and engaging discussion on the growing challenges to U.S. democracy. Social psychologist Eli Finkel, political scientist Chloe Thurston, and communications and policy scholar Erik Nisbet will discuss their latest research on the forces threatening democracy—from strident political polarization to the dire threat of misinformation. Political scientist Laurel Harbridge-Yong will moderate. |
Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 4, 2024
Milestones as Merit: Selecting the Elite in Early Childhood Independent School AdmissionsLauren Rivera, Peter G. Peterson Professor of Corporate Ethics, Professor of Management & Organizations and of Sociology (by courtesy), and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 28, 2024
Democratizing Water Security for All: Policy Lessons at the Intersection of Global Health and Synthetic BiologySera Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health and Morton O. Schapiro IPR Faculty Fellow
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 14, 2024
Promoting Ethnic-Racial Identity Exploration in School-Based Settings: Opportunities, Challenges, and Initial Results from a Randomized Controlled TrialEmma Adam, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities; Education and Human Development; Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 9, 2024
Improving Neighborhoods to Improve Lives: Re-Imagining the Power of PlaceAlthough the U.S. poverty rate was cut in half between 1959 and 2022, it remains stubbornly high at 11.5%, leaving nearly 40 million Americans—about one in 10—living below the poverty line. Research has shown those who live in the most impoverished neighborhoods in the U.S. are sicker and more stressed than those who live in well-off ones. They also see more violence, attend worse schools, and die at much younger ages. However, efforts to revitalize America’s poverty-stricken neighborhoods are many, including government-funded programs and private-public partnerships. A panel of experts in Washington, D.C. examined what’s working to improve America’s most at-risk neighborhoods by curbing violence, creating opportunity, and improving housing and education. |
Policy Research Briefing | Neighborhoods and Community Safety; Policy Discourse and Decision Making; Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 7, 2024
Temporalities of Climate Change in U.S. News (2000-2021)Oscar Stuhler, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Methods for Policy Research; Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 30, 2024
The Development of Racial Bias AwarenessSylvia Perry, Associate Professor of Psychology and of Medical Social Sciences (by courtesy) and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development; Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 15, 2024
- July 25, 2024
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 and Human Development | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 8, 2024
- July 12, 2024
Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2024 Summer InstituteNorthwestern University, with support from the National Science Foundation is providing support for the 2024 Summer Research Training Institute on Improving Evaluations of Research and Development projects in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. |
Workshops and Training | Methods for Policy Research; Education and Human Development | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 20, 2024
Contention and Collaboration: Insights about Social Movement Tactics and InfluenceBrayden King, Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment, Professor of Management and Organizations, and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 13, 2024
Can Paid Family Leave Prevent Future Epidemics of Obesity and Chronic Inflammation?Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology, IPR Fellow, and Director of IPR's Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Inequalities and Health |
Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 6, 2024
Mules: The Punishment and Political Labor of Black WomenSally Nuamah, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow |
Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 29, 2024
Self, Peer, and Teacher Perceptions Under School TrackingOfer Malamud, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow |
Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 22, 2024
Smart Rationing: Designing Electricity Blackout Policies for Extreme EventsMar Reguant, Professor of Economics and IPR Associate |
Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 15, 2024
Who Governs the Association?Brian Libgober, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law and IPR Fellow |
Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 1, 2024
- April 1, 2024
How Can You Advance Your Research with Data Science and AI Support?By Christina Maimone, Northwestern Research Computing and Data Services How can you advance your research with data science and AI support? Northwestern IT Research Computing and Data Services provides a range of resources, services, and specialized staff who will work with you to address challenges throughout the research process--from project planning and data collection, to analysis and visualization, to data sharing and archiving. Areas of support include expertise in data science, statistics, visualization, AI, data management, data workflows, and data analysis, as well as high-performance and high-memory computing resources, data storage, research software, and secure data environments. This session will discuss recent expansions in support services and staff, and opportunities for research collaborations. |
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March 27, 2024
IPR Spring 2024 Distinguished Lecture: Governing the Future: On AI, Public Policy, and DemocracyAlondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Read the IPR story about the event or watch a video of the talk. |
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March 4, 2024
Structured Discussion Across the Climate Divide: NU Friends and Family Climate Change ProgramMary McGrath, Assistant Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 26, 2024
People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused WorkplaceNoshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Director of the SONIC Lab, and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 19, 2024
How Good Norms Do Harm: Insights from an Empirical Investigation of Global Environmental PolicymakingKimberly Suiseeya, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 5, 2024
Using Measures of Race to Make Clinical Predictions: Decision Making, Patient Health, and FairnessCharles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow |
Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 29, 2024
The Public Claim on Private Property: Background Principles in Takings DoctrineDavid Dana, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 23, 2024
SESP/IPR Winter 2024 Distinguished Lecture: An Evening with Ruha BenjaminRuha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University |
Public Policy Lecture | Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 22, 2024
Immigration Enforcement and Public SafetyElisa Jácome, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 27, 2023
(Dis)trust in AmericaJames Druckman, the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and Fellow
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 13, 2023
Striving for Upward Mobility in Adolescents: The School ContextEdith Chen, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of the Foundations of Health Research Center, and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities; Education and Human Development; Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 6, 2023
Sibling Relationships in Adulthood: A Demographic and Stratification PerspectiveChristine Percheski, Associate Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 30, 2023
Revolving Door Laws and Political SelectionSilvia Vannutelli, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 23, 2023
Moving Towards Collaborative Community Partnership ResearchMesmin Destin, Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making; Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Methods for Policy Research | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 16, 2023
The Tribal Constitutions ProjectBeth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR and CNAIR Fellow
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 9, 2023
Opportunity Landscaping: Infrastructuring Healthy Learning Communities to Power Positive STEM FuturesNichole Pinkard, the Alice Hamilton Professor of Learning Sciences and IPR Associate |
Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 2, 2023
Students for Fair Admissions and the Ongoing Struggle over Counter-Majoritarianism in American DemocracyAnthony Chen, Associate Professor of Sociology and of Political Science (by courtesy) and IPR Fellow |
Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 17, 2023
- July 27, 2023
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 and Human Development; Methods for Policy Research | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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June 26, 2023
- June 30, 2023
Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2023 Summer InstituteNorthwestern 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 | Education and Human Development; Methods for Policy Research | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 15, 2023
The Racial Disparity in Adverse Birth Outcomes: Putting the Spotlight on Structural RacismJames W. Collins, Jr., Zeisler Family Neonatology Leadership Professor and Professor of Pediatrics
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Colloquium | Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 9, 2023
IPR Spring 2023 Distinguished Lecture: The Mythology of Racial ProgressJennifer 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 | Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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Colloquium | Methods for Policy Research; Education and Human Development | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 5, 2023
Chicago Area Behavior WorkshopThe 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 | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 1, 2023
Modern Meta-AnalysisElizabeth Tipton, Associate Professor of Statistics, Co-Director of the Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy and Practice (STEPP) Center, and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development; Methods for Policy Research | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 24, 2023
Partisan Differences in the Use, Trust, and Funding of Science in the United StatesAlexander Furnas, Research Assistant Professor at Kellogg's Center for Science of Science and Innovation and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 10, 2023
What Is the University-Student Contract?Max Schanzenbach, the Seigle Family Professor of Law and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 3, 2023
Overperception of Moral Outrage in Online Social Networks Inflates Beliefs About Intergroup HostilityWilliam Brady, Donald P. Jacobs Scholar, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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March 6, 2023
Spatial Thinking and STEM Education: Why They Matter for PolicyDavid Uttal, Professor of Psychology and Education and Social Policy; Director of the S.T.A.R. (Spatial Thinking and Reasoning) Lab
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 27, 2023
The Patina of Distrust: Misinformation in a Context of Generalized SkepticismPablo Boczkowski, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication Studies and IPR Associate; Founder and Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 20, 2023
IPR Winter 2023 Distinguished Lecture: Creating Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big DataRaj Chetty, the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics and Director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University |
Public Policy Lecture | Methods for Policy Research; Neighborhoods and Community Safety; Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Policy Discourse and Decision Making; Education and Human Development | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 13, 2023
Recasting the Past to Protect the Present: Investigating Misperceptions of Progress to Social EqualityIvuoma Ngozi Onyeador, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and IPR Associate |
Colloquium | Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 6, 2023
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Children and Adolescents and How Are They Recovering?
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development; Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Health Inequalities; Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 30, 2023
Navigating Privacy-Utility Trade-Offs for Public DataJessica Hullman, Ginni Rometty Professor, Associate Professor of Computer Science, and IPR Associate, and Co-Director of the Midwest Uncertainty Collective Lab |
Colloquium | Methods for Policy Research | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 23, 2023
Racial-Ethnic Hiring Discrimination, Immigration, and Labor Market ConditionsLincoln Quillian, Professor of Sociology, IPR Fellow, and Chair of IPR's Program on Urban Policy and Community Development |
Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making; Neighborhoods and Community Safety; Methods for Policy Research; Race, Poverty, and Inequality | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 9, 2023
How Stress Gets Under the Skin: A Neuroimmune Network HypothesisRobin Nusslock, Associate Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 28, 2022
The Spillover Effects of Capital Trials on Prosecutorial Case ManagementAlexander Lundberg, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 14, 2022
IPR 2022 Midterm Elections Panel: Analysis and Discussion with IPR FacultyStephanie 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
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 7, 2022
Stereotypes About Adolescence: Cultural Differences, Consequences, and InterventionYang Qu, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Education and Human Development | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. |
Special Event | Policy Discourse and Decision Making; Education and Human Development | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 31, 2022
Birth and Death in the United StatesHannes Schwandt, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities; Education and Human Development | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 24, 2022
Twenty-Five Years of Health Services Research Using Illinois Hospital DataJoe Feinglass, Research Professor of Medicine and IPR Associate
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities; Methods for Policy Research | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 17, 2022
Partial Identification of Personalized Treatment Response with Trial-Reported Analyses of Binary SubgroupsCharles F. Manski, the Board of Trustees Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Methods for Policy Research | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 10, 2022
Lawyers as Lobbyists: Regulatory Advocacy in American FinanceBrian Libgober, Assistant Professor of Political Science and of Law (by courtesy) and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 5, 2022
IPR Fall 2022 Distinguished Lecture: Staying Resolute in the Battle Against InflationRaphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, spoke on "Staying Resolute in the Battle Against Inflation."
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Public Policy Lecture | Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2022 | Video; Photos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 3, 2022
Re-envisioning Water Security from the Human Perspective: Integrating a New Indicator into Science and PolicySera Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health and IPR Fellow
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Colloquium | Health Inequalities; Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Neighborhoods and Community Safety | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 11, 2022
- July 15, 2022
Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2022 Summer InstituteNorthwestern 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 and Human Development | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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June 20, 2022
- June 30, 2022
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 | Methods for Policy Research | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | Health Inequalities | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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June 6, 2022
From College to Career: Tracing Changes in Elite Women's Commitment and Pride in Historically White Sorority MembershipSimone Ispa-Landa, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
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May 23, 2022
Identifying Drivers of Health Inequality in the United StatesGreg 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
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May 16, 2022
Clubs and Networks in Academic ReviewingDavid Figlio, Dean, School of Education and Social Policy, and Orrington Lunt Professor
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May 9, 2022
Pursuing Research on Racial Equity in a Polarized EnvironmentAdam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation See a video of the talk.
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May 6, 2022
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Chicago Area Behavior Workshop2022 Chicago Area Social and Political Behavior (CAB) Workshop
Friday, May 6, 2022Guild Lounge, Scott Hall601 University PlaceEvanston CampusPlans 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
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May 2, 2022
The Role of Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Voter Decision-MakingTabitha Bonilla, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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April 25, 2022
Fair JuriesShari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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April 18, 2022
Thinking with Data Visualizations, Fast and SlowSteven Franconeri, Professor of Psychology and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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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 BeyondThomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow, and Jessica Polos, IPR Postdoctoral Fellow See a video of the talk.
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April 4, 2022
(Affective) Polarization in America: When It Matters Politically and What It Means for DemocracyJames Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and Fellow See a video of the talk.
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March 14, 2022
Fighting Phantoms: Disagreement vs. Disdain in the American Body PoliticEli Finkel, Professor of Psychology and Management and Organizations and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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March 7, 2022
Debtors and American Political DevelopmentChloe Thurston, Assistant Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
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February 28, 2022
How Online Participation Inequalities (Probably) Reinforce StratificationAaron Shaw, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and IPR Associate
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February 21, 2022
The Lasting Impacts of School ShootingsMolly Schnell, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
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February 14, 2022
The Downstream Effects of Endorsing Social Mediated Claims on COVID-Related Attitudes and BehaviorsErik Nisbet, Owen L. Coon Chair in Policy Analysis and Communication, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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February 7, 2022
U.S. High School Student Outcomes in 1960 and Universal Pre-K, 1943–46Joseph Ferrie, Professor and Department Chair of Economics and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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January 31, 2022
Norm-Based Messaging as an Anti-Corruption ToolJordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate
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January 24, 2022
Family Norms in FluxJulia Behrman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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January 10, 2022
M(ai)cro: Centering the Macrosystem in Racial Identity DevelopmentOnnie Rogers, Assistant Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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December 8, 2021
N3 2021 Symposium on Street OutreachAs 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.
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December 6, 2021
The Costs and Benefits of “Psychiatrization”: Working-Class Mexican American Mothers’ Experiences of Mental Healthcare-Seeking for their AdolescentsRebecca Seligman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow |
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November 29, 2021
Personality Traits and Toleration of Neuropathology in Older AdulthoodDan Mroczek, Professor of Psychology and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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November 15, 2021
The Affordable Care Act and Critical Periods for Cardiovascular Health InterventionLindsay Pool, Research Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) See a video of the talk.
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November 8, 2021
Who Shows Up in Primary Elections and Why It Matters for PolicymakingLaurel Harbridge-Yong, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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November 1, 2021
Adaptability and the Pivot Penalty in ScienceBenjamin Jones, Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Strategy, and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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October 25, 2021
The Promise of a School-Based, Trauma-Informed Group Therapy Intervention for Young WomenJonathan Guryan, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy and IPR Fellow |
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October 18, 2021
Understanding and Encouraging White American Parent-Child Conversations About RaceSylvia Perry, Associate Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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October 11, 2021
The Problem of Labor Standards Enforcement: Complaints vs. Compliance with the Minimum WageDaniel Galvin, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow |
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October 4, 2021
Abundance: Living in a World of Information PlentyPablo Boczkowski, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication Studies and IPR Associate See a video of the talk.
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September 27, 2021
Breadth vs. Depth: Learning About Education from Academic SpecializationOfer Malamud, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow See a video of the talk.
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July 19, 2021
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Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2021 Summer InstituteNorthwestern 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. |
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June 7, 2021
Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation in EconomicsLori Beaman, Associate Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow Rob Voigt, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and IPR Associate |
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May 24, 2021
The Early Childhood Education and Care Enterprise in the 21st CenturyTerri Sabol, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
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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 |
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May 10, 2021
Prenatal Nutrition as an Influence on Future Health and Human Capital: Strategies for Harnessing a Challenging Policy LeverChristopher Kuzawa, Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow
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May 7, 2021
Chicago Area Behavior Workshop2021 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 Kam, Vanderbilt 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. |
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May 3, 2021
Computational Linguistics for Understanding Police-Community InteractionRob Voigt, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and IPR Associate
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April 26, 2021
What Is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School OutputKirabo Jackson, Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy, and IPR Fellow
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April 19, 2021
How, and How Early, Do We Begin to 'See' Race? Developmental Entry Points and Research ChallengesSandra Waxman, Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology and IPR Fellow
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April 12, 2021
The Human Microbiome and Health InequitiesKatherine Amato, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and IPR Associate
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April 5, 2021
Designing Survey Modules by Combining Qualitative Interview Data and Machine LearningSeema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
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March 8, 2021
When Democracy Exaggerates DifferenceMonica Prasad, Professor of Sociology, WCAS Board of Visitors Professor, and IPR Fellow
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March 1, 2021
Trends in Hiring Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Western CountriesLincoln Quillian, Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
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February 22, 2021
Income and Earnings of U.S. Millennials During Young AdulthoodChristine Percheski, Associate Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
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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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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 |
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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 Sarath Sanga, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Strategy Department, Kellogg School of Management (Courtesy) See a video of the talk.
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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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January 11, 2021
Before Bakke: The Hidden History of the Diversity RationaleAnthony Chen, Associate Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
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November 23, 2020
When Do Citizens Grease the Wheel? The Demand Side of Bribery |
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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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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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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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October 26, 2020
How the Punishment of Black Women and Girls Affects Our Democracy |
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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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October 12, 2020
The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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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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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May 11, 2020
Disease Spread and Human CapitalHannes Schwandt, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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February 26, 2020
Special Lecture - The Greatest Anti-Poverty Success Story I KnowNew 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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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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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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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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January 15, 2020
Thinking with Visualizations, Fast and SlowSteven Franconeri, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
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Colloquium | 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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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 | Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 25, 2019
The Role of Campaign Promises in Voter Decision Making |
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November 21, 2019
Janet Currie: Child Health as Human CapitalJanet 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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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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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 |
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November 11, 2019
The Violent Bias in the Study of Civil War |
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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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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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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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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 |
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October 21, 2019
Race in the Machine |
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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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October 9, 2019
Estimating Replicability: Prospective and Retrospective Approachesby Blake McShane, Associate Professor of Marketing, Kellogg, Northwestern University |
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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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June 6, 2019
Evictions in AmericaMatthew 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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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. |
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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. |
Public Policy Lecture | Race, Poverty, and Inequality; Policy Discourse and Decision Making | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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April 26, 2018
The Future of Work at the Human-Technology FrontierFay 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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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. |
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February 16, 2017
Kathryn EdinIn 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. Read the IPR story about this event or watch a video of the talk. |
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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. |
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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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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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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). |
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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. |
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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 | Methods for Policy Research; Education and Human Development | 2008 |