Spring 2009
Tuesday, May 5
Matthew Wiswall, Assistant Professor of Economics,
New York University
Title: "Household choices, family structure and child development"
Location: Puck Building (295 Lafayette Street), 4th Floor Conference Room
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP to ihdsc@nyu.edu, and please include your title and affiliation.
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Tuesday, January 27
Patrick Sharkey, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
New York University
Title: "The legacy of disadvantage: Neighborhood effects over multiple generations"
Wednesday, March 4
Shelley Lundberg, Director, Center
for Research on Families; Castor Professor of Economics, University of Washington
Title: "Psychological traits and family outcomes"
[Co-Sponsored with CASSR]
Tuesday, March 31
Maria LaRusso, Visiting
Research Scholar, Institute of Human Development and Social Change
Title: "Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods to understand child and adolescent social development in context"
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Tuesday, April 7
Janis Kupersmidt, President
and CEO, innovation Research & Training, Inc.
Title: "Media literacy education as a means of substance abuse prevention with elementary and middle school students"
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Tuesday, April 21
Jeffrey Smith, Faculty Associate
of Institute for Social Research, Professor of Department of Economics; University of Michigan
Title: "Using experiments as benchmarks for non-experimental estimators of causal effects: What have we learned?"
[Co-Sponsored with CASSR and IES-PIRT
Proseminar Series]
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Wednesday, April 29
Susan E. Mayer, Professor
and Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
Title: "Cautionary tales about intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity"
[Co-Sponsored with NYU's Department of Sociology]
Fall 2008
Tuesday, September 16
Daniel McFarland, Associate Professor of Education and Sociology and Business, Stanford University
Prof. McFarland's research focuses on the social aspect of education, and discovering the link between social trends and improving educational structure.
Title: "We just clicked - Prosody and accommodation in social bond formation"
Tuesday, October 28
Ajay Chaudry; Director of Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population; Urban Institute
Dr. Chaudry's research examines the development of young children through various factors including Head Start, poverty, and income support.
Title: "The development of children of immigrants and U.S. immigration policy"
Tuesday, November 4
Paul Montgomery, Co-Director
of the Center for Evidence-Based Intervention, Department of Social
Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
Title: "Evidence-based interventions: Change you can believe in."
[Co-Sponsored with NYU's Child Study Center]
Tuesday, November 18
Monica Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Psychology, SUNY Albany
Title: "Promoting parenting competencies conducive to children's cognitive engagement and self regulation
in mothers at risk for child abuse and neglect"
[Co-Sponsored with NYU's Department of Applied Psychology, doctoral program in developmental psychology]
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Wednesday, November 19
Lawrence Wu, Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research; Deputy Director, IHDSC, New York University
Title: "Insights from a sequential hazard model of sexual initiation and premarital first births."
[Co-Sponsored with CASSR]
Tuesday, December 2
Daniela Del Boca, Professor of Economics, University of Turin; Director, CHILD; Visiting Professor of Economics, New York University
Title: "Household membership decisions of adult children."
[Co-Sponsored with CASSR]
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