Healthy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies
An IRP Seminar Series
During the 2008–2009 academic year, leading scholars will visit
IRP to consider a broad range of policy interventions to support healthy
families and challenges in their design and evaluation as part of the
Institute’s seminar series Healthy Families: Assessing the Role
of Public Policies.
The Healthy Families series is motivated by the need to advance
and inform our understanding of healthy families, identify effective
policies that promote healthy families, and address the challenges facing
children and adults in families under stress. Hence, IRP is pursuing
an agenda designed to address outstanding issues central to supporting
healthy families.
The series will include seminars on the way that poor job outcomes for
low-educated, especially minority, men affects their marriage ability
and partnership prospects; a summary of the evidence from a career academies
experiment and its implications for marriage; the role of policy and
fathers in complex families; healthy families and policies that promote
good child outcomes; child support policies that support healthy
families; and policies for fathers in complex families and fathers’ roles
in at-risk families.
Thursdays, 12:15-1:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science Building
September 18, 2008
Improving Labor Market Outcomes and Transitions to Adulthood:
Evidence from Career Academies
James Kemple, Director of the K-12 Education Policy Area, MDRC
[PowerPoint
Presentation available in PDF format]
Monday, November 10, 2008
Vanishing Dreams: A 15 Year Reappraisal
Andrew Sum, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center
for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University
February 5, 2009
Please
note: This seminar has been rescheduled for April 2, 2009
Fragile Fathers: The Meaning of Family for Low-Income Unmarried Urban Men
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Public Policy and Management,
Harvard Kennedy School
February 12, 2009
Healthy Marriage: What Is it, and Why Does
it Matter?"
Kristin Anderson Moore, Senior Scholar & Program Area Director, Child Trends
March 26, 2009
Is Child Support the Problem or Solution?
Maria
Cancian,
Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, and IRP Affiliate,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
April 2, 2009
Fragile Fathers: The Meaning of Family for
Low-Income Unmarried Urban Men
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Public Policy and Management,
Harvard Kennedy School
April 16, 2009
Family Instability and Child Outcomes
Sara McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
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