IRP Graduate Research Fellows Program Calendar, 2008–2009
Fall 2008 | Spring 2009
All IRP seminars are from 12:15-1:30 pm in 8417 Social Science Building
Thursday, September 4
IRP Seminar
"Welcome to the IRP Seminar Series for 2008–2009, and General Introduction
to My Research Goals and Expectations for IRP"
Timothy Smeeding, New IRP Director
Reception follows the seminar
GRF introductory meeting: 11:00-11:45 AM
New IRP Director, Tim Smeeding, will be
joining this meeting
Note: All GRF meetings will be held in the IRP conference
room, 3470 Social Science
Thursday, September 11
Possible IRP Seminar
Thursday, September 18
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
"Improving Labor Market Outcomes and Transitions to Adulthood:
Evidence from Career Academies"
James Kemple, Director of the K-12 Education Policy Area, MDRC
Reception follows the seminar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Guest
speaker: James Kemple
Topic: Discussion of career academies and research positions/environment
at MDRC and other research organizations
Reading: Kemple and Willner. 2008. "Career
Academies: Long-Term Impacts on Labor
Market Outcomes, Educational Attainment, and Transitions to Adulthood." MDRC.
Thursday, September 25
IRP Seminar Series, Meet the New IRP Affiliate
"The Myth of Glass Ceiling: Evidence from a Stock-Flow Analysis of Workplace Authority Attainment"
Zhen Zeng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
(Please note:
This seminar has been rescheduled for Monday, November 10, 2008)
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
"Vanishing Dreams: A 15 Year Reappraisal"
Andrew M. Sum, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston
October 5-11: Rodney Andrews, IRP Visiting Scholar
Thursday, October 9
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
"Application Behavior, Rank, and Targeted Recruitment: An Examination
of Alternatives to Traditional Affirmative Action Policies"
Rodney Andrews, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard
University, and IRP Visiting Scholar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Guest speaker: Rodney Andrews
Topic: Discussion of Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project
and IQSS/post-doc opportunities
Reading: Andrews, Rodney. 2008. "High
School Quality, Race and College Achievement." Working paper, Harvard
University.
Thursday, October 16
IRP Seminar
"Community Resilience in New Orleans East: Deploying the Cultural Toolkit
within a Vietnamese-American Community"
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Elbert H. Neese Professor of Economics, Beloit College
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Guest
speaker: Emily Chamlee-Wright
Topic: Discussion of Austrian economics and academic opportunities
in liberal arts colleges
Reading: Peter Boettke, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Peter Gordon, Sanford
Ikeda, Peter T. Leeson, and Russell Sobel. 2007. "The
Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina." Southern
Economic Journal 74(2): 363–376
October 19-24: Udaya Wagle, IRP Visiting Scholar
Thursday, October 23
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
"Working Poverty in Michigan: Magnitudes, Socio-Demographic Determinants, and
Their Changes Between 1998 and 2007"
Udaya Wagle, Assistant Professor School of Public Affairs and Administration,
Western Michigan University and IRP Visiting Scholar
Thursday, October 30
IRP Seminar Series, Meet the New IRP Affiliate
"The Impact of Fatness on Disability Insurance Application by the Non-Elderly"
Maximilian Schmeiser, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thursday, November 6
No IRP Seminar, APPAM Conference in Los Angeles, CA, November 6-8
Monday, November 10
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
"Vanishing Dreams: A 15 Year Reappraisal"
Andrew M. Sum, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for
Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston
Reception follows seminar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Guest
speaker: Andrew M. Sum
Reading: Sum, Andrew, Irwin Kirsch, and Robert Taggart. 2002. "The
Twin Challenges of Mediocrity and Inequality: Literacy in the U.S. from
an International Perspective." Educational Testing Serivce, Washington,
DC.
Thursday, November 13
IRP Seminar Series, Meet the New IRP Affiliate
"Health Insurance and School Lunch: Covering Poor Kids and Families"
Roberta Riportella, Professor and Chair of Consumer Science, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thursday, November 20
"Components of Change in the Relative Size of the Foreign-Born Population,
1960–2000"
Franklin D. Wilson, William H. Sewell-Bascom Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
GRF meeting:
10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
GRF job market presentation, Malcolm Gold, "Divorce
and Divorce Reform: A Reconciliation of Results at Odds"
Tuesday, November 25
La Follette School Seminar (co-sponsored with IRP)
"Parental Job Loss and Children’s Educational Attainment In Black and White Middle Class Families"
Ariel Kalil, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of
the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of Chicago, Harris
School of Public Policy
Time: Noon
Location: La Follette School conference room
November 30-December 13:
Fernando Lozano, IRP Visiting Scholar
Thursday, December 4
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
"The Evolution of Worker's Schedule Flexibility in the U.S. Labor Force: Evidence
from the CPS"
Fernando Lozano, Assistant Professor of Economics, Pomona College and IRP Visiting Scholar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Reading: Lozano, Fernando A. 2008. "Language,
High School Leadership and the Postsecondary Outcomes of Hispanic Students." Economics
of Education Review 27 (2008): 342–353
Thursday, December 11
IRP Seminar, Meet the New IRP Affiliate
"Migration, Poverty and Place in the Context of the Return Migration to the US South"
Katherine Curtis, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, University
of Wisconsin–Madison
GRF meeting:
10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
GRF job market presentation, Marci Ybarra, "Careful What We Wish For?
Simulating the Effects of Paid Family Leave on Maternity-Related Welfare
Participants." Paper to be provided later.
Thursday, January 22
Possible IRP Seminar
Thursday, January 29
IRP Seminar Series, Meet the New IRP Affiliate
"Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State"
Scott W. Allard, Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Thursday, February 5
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
"Fragile Fathers: The Meaning of Family for Low-Income Unmarried Urban Men"
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
Reception follows the seminar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Guest speaker: Kathryn Edin
Readings:
Thursday, February 12
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
"Healthy Marriage: What Is it, and Why Does it Matter?"
Kristin A. Moore, Senior Scholar & Program Area Director,
Child Trends
Reception follows the seminar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Guest speaker: Kristin A. Moore
Readings:
Thursday, February 19
IRP Seminar Series, Meet the New IRP Affiliate
"TBA"
J. Michael Collins, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science,
School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Readings:
Thursday, February 26
Possible IRP Seminar
Thursday, March 5
Possible IRP seminar
Thursday, March 12
IRP Seminar
"TBA"
Robert Fairlie, Professor of Economics, University of California,
Santa Cruz
This event is co-sponsored by the La Follette School, with support
from the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
Thursday, March 26
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
"Is Child Support the Problem or Solution?"
Maria Cancian, Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, and IRP
Affiliate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Reception follows the seminar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Readings:
Thursday, April 2
Possible IRP Seminar
Thursday, April 9
IRP Seminar
"How Reliable are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?"
John Micklewright, Professor of Social Sciences, University of Southampton,
Southampton United Kingdom and IRP Visitor
Thursday, April 16
IRP Seminar Series, Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
"Family Instability and Child Outcomes"
Sara McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University
Reception follows the seminar
GRF meeting: 10:45-11:45 AM, IRP conference room
Guest speaker: Sara McLanahan
Readings:
Tuesday, April 21
Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) Seminar (co-sponsored with IRP)
"TBA"
Thomas DiPrete, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Time: 12:20-1:30
Location: 4308 Social Science Building
Thursday, April 23
IRP Seminar
"The Feminization of Forced Removal: Why Poor Women
are More Likely to Get Evicted than Poor Men"
Matthew Desmond, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thursday, April 30
No IRP Seminar (PAA in session in Detroit)
May 3–10: Angel Harris, IRP Visiting Scholar
Thursday, May 7
IRP Visiting Scholars Seminar Series
"TBA"
Angel Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies;
Faculty Associate: Office of Population Research, Center for Research on Child
Wellbeing; and Joint Degree Program in Social Policy, Princeton University and
IRP Visiting Scholar
Monday, June 15-Thursday, June 18
IRP Summer Research Workshop (inlcuding Lampman Lecture)
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