26-Jan Sanders Korenman, Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch. “Improvements in Health among Black Infants in Washington DC.” (with Danielle Ferry)

2-Feb Kristin Mammen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard. “”Fathers’ Time Investments in Children: Do Sons Get More?”

9-Feb Sally Findley, Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, CU. “Cycles of Vulnerability in Mali: The interplay of migration with seasonal fluctuations.”

16-Feb FFWG: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, CU. “Child Care at Three: Preliminary Analyses of Fragile Families.”

2-Mar FFWG: Brad Wilcox, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. Visiting Scholar, CRCW, Princeton University. “Domesticating Men: Religion, Norms, & Relationship Quality Among Fragile Families”

9-Mar Pierre Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics, CU. “Birth Control and Female Empowerment: An Equilibrium Analysis.” NOTE: this seminar will begin at 12:30.
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16-Mar FFWG: Mary Clare Lennon, Associate Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, CU. Visiting Scholar, CRCW, Princeton University. “Trajectories of Childhood Poverty: Tools for Analyzing Duration, Timing, and Sequencing Effects.”

23-Mar Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science, CU. “Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State: What’s the Matter with Connecticut? A Demonstration of Multilevel Modeling.”

13-Apr Howard Bloom, Chief Research Scientist, MDRC. “Using a Regression Discontinuity Design to Measure the Impacts of Reading First.”

20-Apr FFWG: Barbara Heyns, Professor of Sociology, NYU. Visiting Scholar, CRCW, Princeton University “The Mandarins of Childhood.”

27-Apr Leanna Stiefel, Professor of Economics, Wagner School, NYU. “Can Public Schools Close the Race Gap? Probing the Evidence in a Large Urban School District.”

4-May FFWG: Cay Bradley, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania. Title: TBA

11-May Jane Waldfogel, Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, CUSSW. “What Children Need.”

18-May FFWG: Chris Paxson, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton. “Income and Child Development.”

Spring 2006 Family Demography and Public Policy Seminar
Thursdays, 12:00 – 1:30
Columbia University School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Ave, room 1109

FFWG is the Fragile Families Working Group, a venue for work in progress using (mostly) Fragile Families Data. All FFWG presentations are videoconferenced with Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania.