Awards
Mesmin Destin Named a Guggenheim Fellow
IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin was one of four Northwestern scholars among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. With a focus on how socioeconomic resources influence life trajectories, he studies how environments shape people’s identities and the impact of these dynamic identities on school experiences and wellbeing.
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Explainer Video
Are Government Housing Programs Fair?
After WWII, millions of Americans bought homes for the first time thanks to the standardization of 30-year mortgages. IPR political scientist Chloe Thurston explains how many minorities and women were shut out due to discriminatory government policies. Watch the two-minute video and read the related policy brief to learn more about her research.
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Research News
Northwestern University has announced the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Program, a new research initiative to advance the understanding of effective pandemic policy responses. Funded by a $1 million grant from the Peterson Foundation, the gift will help “understand the wide-ranging impacts of COVID and do research to build new capabilities, resilience and productivity going forward,” said IPR Director and economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach.
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Read recent IPR research, including studies that explore wage theft during a recession, the association between fertility and women's employment across the globe, and the spread of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Former faculty fellow and director Margaret (Margo) T. Gordon, 81, died on April 1 in Seattle. A groundbreaking scholar and accomplished administrator, Gordon became IPR’s third director in September 1980, when it was known as the Center for Urban Affairs, and served for eight years.
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Faculty Opinion
"Evanston is a small suburb that is trying to take a big first step in the area of reparations, and I think housing is a good place to start."
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Working Papers
Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans (WP-20-37)
Jason Abaluck, Mauricio M. Caceres Bravo, Peter Hull, and Amanda Starc
The Role of Race, Religion, and Partisanship in Misinformation About COVID-19 (WP-20-38)
James Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew Baum, David Lazer, Roy Perlis, John Della Volpe, Mauricio Santillana, Hanyu Chwe, Alexi Quintana, and Matthew Simonson
This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession (WP-20-39)
Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, and Michèle Tertilt
The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program (WP-20-40)
Jonathan Guryan, Sandra Christenson, Ashley Cureton, Ijun Lai, Jens Ludwig, Catherine Schwarz, Emma Shirey, and Mary Clair Turner
Early Origins of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Inflammation: Evaluating the Contributions of Low Birth Weight and Short Breastfeeding (WP-20-41)
Thomas McDade and Stephanie Koning
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Events
IPR's events for the spring 2021 quarter will be held online. Registration is required to join. You can always find the latest event information by visiting our online calendar.
April 26: "What Is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output" by Kirabo Jackson (IPR/SESP)
May 3: "Computational Linguistics for Understanding Police-Community Interaction" by Rob Voigt (Linguistics/IPR)
May 7: Chicago Area Social and Political Behavior Workshop organized by James Druckman (IPR/Political Science) featuring talks by Mara Ostfeld (University of Michigan), Cindy Kam (Vanderbilt University), Avital Livny (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Mary McGrath (IPR/Political Science)
May 10: "Prenatal Nutrition as an Influence on Future Health and Human Capital: Strategies for Harnessing a Challenging Policy Lever" by Christopher Kuzawa (IPR/Anthro.)
May 17: TBA by Larry Hedges (IPR/Stats/SESP/Psych.)
May 24: "The Early Childhood Education and Care Enterprise in the 21st Century: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities" by Terri Sabol (IPR/SESP)
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