Proseminar Series - Institute of Human Development and Social Change

Following is an archive of the Proseminar Series Events for the 2008/2009 academic year.

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Date	Speakers	Affiliated University and Department	Presentation	Location
Fall 2008
9/8	J. Lawrence Aber & Amy Schwartz	NYU: Applied Psychology, Wagner & Wagner, HMSS-Steinhardt	(Instructors and Students ONLY)	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
9/15	Richard Arum	NYU: Sociology, HMSS-Steinhardt	"Educational attainment, teacher/student ratios and adult incarceration risk among U.S. birth cohorts since 1910"	IESP Pless Hall 7^th floor
9/22	Rachelle Brunn	NYU: Wagner	"Where are all the boys? Examining the black-white gender gap in postsecondary attainment"	Sociology Puck Building 4^th floor
9/29	Dalton Conley	NYU: Sociology		Sociology Puck Building 4^th floor
10/6	Sean Corcoran	NYU: HMSS-Steinhardt, Wagner	"Income inequality, the median voter, and the support for public education"	Economics 19 W 4^th Street 5^th floor
10/20	Bill Evans	University of Notre Dame: Economics	"The impact of local labor market conditions on the demand for education: Evidence from Indian casinos"	IESP Pless Hall 7^th floor
10/27	Fred Morrison	University of Michigan: Psychology	"Individualizing student instruction: Helping all children learn"	HMSS Kimball Hall 3^rd floor
11/3	James Kemple	NYU: Teaching and Learning	"Improving youth labor market prospects: Long-term findings from career academies"	Economics 19 W 4^th Street 5^th floor
11/10	Elise Cappella	NYU: Teaching and Learning	"Rigorous, responsive, and responsible: Intervention research with children in urban school community-contexts"	IESP Pless Hall 7^th floor
11/17	Leigh Linden	Columbia University: Economics, International and Public Affairs	"Testing alternative approaches to conditional cash transfer programs in education: Evidence from Colombia"	IHDSC 726 Broadway 5^th floor
11/24	Cybele Raver	NYU: Applied Psychology, Wagner	"Targeting children's behavior problems in preschool classrooms: A cluster-randomized controlled trial"	IHDSC 726 Broadway 5^th floor
12/1	Christopher Weiss	Columbia University: ISERP	"Re-examining the transition to high school"	Economics 19 W 4^th Street 5^th floor
12/8	J. Lawrence Aber & Amy Schwartz	NYU: Applied Psychology & Wagner, HMSS-Steinhardt	(Instructors and Students ONLY)	IHDSC 726 Broadway 5^th floor
Spring 2009
1/26	C. Cybele Raver & Richard Arum	NYU: Applied Psychology, Wagner & Sociology, HMSS-Steinhardt	(Instructors and Students ONLY)	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 541
2/2	Larry Hedges	Northwestern University: Institute for Policy Research	"How large are teacher effects?" and "Generalization from experiments"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
2/9	Doreet Preiss, Jacob Leos-Urbel, & Daisy Jackson	NYU: IES-PIRT	Preiss: "School rights project: Law and the dynamics of everyday school life" Leos-Urbel: "Well-being of South African children: Household, community, and policy influences" Jackson: "MTP-L2L adaptation project: Bridging education and mental health in urban elementary schools"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
2/23	Fuhua Zhai	NYU: IHDSC	"Effects of Head Start on children's outcomes: Evidence from a propensity score matching approach"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
3/6	Susanna Loeb	Stanford University: Education	"Learning to teach? Pathways into teaching and student achievement in NYC"	Pless Hall 82 WSQ East 5^th floor
3/9	J. Lawrence Aber	NYU: Applied Psychology, Wagner	"Promoting the social-emotional and literacy development of low-income children: Results from a school randomized trial" (part 2 here)	Pless Hall 82 WSQ East 5^th floor
3/23	Kathleen Sikkema	Duke University: Psychology & Neuroscience	"Community-level HIV prevention trials: Design, implementation, and effectiveness"	Pless Hall 82 WSQ East 5^th floor
3/30	Adam Gamoran	University of Wisconsin-Madison: WCER	"Curriculum change and causal inference: Experimental effects on elementary science achievement"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
4/6	Florencia Torche	NYU: Sociology	"The effect of maternal stress on birth outcomes: Using a major earthquake as a natural experiment"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
4/13	Melissa Velez & Karen McFadden	NYU: IES-PIRT	Velez: "Time use and academic achievement" McFadden: "The Foundations of Learning: Impact of a behavioral intervention on low-income preschool classrooms"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
4/21	Jeffrey Smith [Co-Sponsored with IHDSC and CASSR]	University of Michigan: Economics	"Using experiments as benchmarks for non-experimental estimators of causal effects: What have we learned?"	Wagner Puck Building 2^nd floor
4/27	Jennifer Hill	NYU: HMSS-Steinhardt	"Why we (usually) don't need to worry about multiple comparisons"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
5/4	Amy Schwartz	NYU: Wagner, HMSS-Steinhardt	"Age of entry and the high school performance of immigrant youth"	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542
5/11	C. Cybele Raver & Richard Arum	NYU: Applied Psychology, Wagner & Sociology, HMSS-Steinhardt	(Instructors and Students ONLY)	IHDSC 726 Broadway Room 542