Infographic: Women Still Ask for Less
IPR associate Elizabeth Gerber finds that in the online gig economy, women ask for lower hourly rates than men. But because women worked more hours, they earned more overall than men did in the gig economy.
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IPR anthropologist Sera Young spoke at the launch of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) scale in Washington, D.C. It is the first tool to reliably measure household water insecurity around the world.
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Pregnancy Complications Rise for Illinois Women
In a recent study, IPR associate and Feinberg research professor Joe Feinglass and his colleagues discovered that maternal morbidity remained stable in Illinois, while pregnancy complications increased for women between 2011 and 2015.
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"In the United States, filing taxes is painful by
design. The tax-collection system as we know it is the outcome of three forces: corporate lobbying, a stubborn resistance to borrowing good ideas from other Western nations, and the Republican Party’s decades-long campaign against taxation itself."
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Register for the
IPR@50 Conference
Register now for "IPR@50: The Next 50 Years of Policy Research" on June 6–7. The conference will take place on Northwestern's Evanston Campus with a series of thematic panels featuring IPR faculty researchers. Topics to be discussed include “Breakthroughs in Policy Measurement,” “How Experience Becomes Biology,” and “Community Partnerships Produce Better Services and Research.”
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Register for the 2019 Yidan Prize Conference Series, The Americas
Register now for the "Yidan Prize Conference Series, The Americas" on May 23–24, hosted by Northwestern University. Featuring IPR statistician
Larry Hedges and Anant Agarwal, founder and CEO of edX, the conference will highlight new directions for research and development inspired by the Yidan Prize Laureates.
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IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin received the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Award.
Behavioral scientist and IPR associate Linda Teplin will receive the 2019 Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine's Women Faculty Organization.
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May 2: "College Aid, College Completion, and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Randomized Trial" by David Autor (MIT)
May 3: "Chicago Area Political Science Behavior Workshop," organized by James Druckman (IPR/Political Science)
May 6: "Beyond Pride and Prejudice: Can Insights from Relationship Psychology Improve Our Politics?" by Eli Finkel (Psychology/ IPR)
May 9: "Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment" by Natalie Bau (University of California, Los Angeles)
May 13: "Can We Really End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030? A Policy Reality Check" by Celeste Watkins-Hayes (IPR/ Sociology)
May 15: "The Political Economy of Overpayments to Medicare Advantage Plans" by Richard Kronick (University of California, San Diego)
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