Seminar Series

How population-level matched birth-school administrative records can address public health and education policy questions

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Speaker

David Figlio
Provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education
University of Rochester

Abstract

This presentation highlights the recent scholarship of David Figlio, who popularized the use of matched birth-school data to address public health and education policy questions in the field of economics. Figlio will present a survey of his research on early health and later educational outcomes, as well as the use of sibling comparisons (facilitated by matched birth records) to study policy-relevant issues in education.

Trends in the Gender Pay Gap: Narrowing Starting Gaps and Persistent Life-Course Divergence

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Speaker

Alexandra Killewald
Professor of Sociology
University of Michigan

Compensation vs. Reinforcement: Experimental Identification of Parental Aversion to Inequality in Offspring

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Speaker

Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics
Vanderbilt University

Understanding the Structural Determinants of Population Health: Housing Assistance and Lead Exposure in the United States

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Speaker

Andy Fenelon
Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
University of Minnesota

Rethinking the Past and Future of (Im)migrant Integration

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Speaker

Tod Hamilton
Professor of Sociology
Princeton University

Global inequalities in U.S. visa rejection rates: Evidence from the outcomes of U.S visa applications submitted over the past two decades.

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Speaker

Kevin J.A. Thomas
Director, Institute of Urban Policy Research and Analysis
Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Sociology
University of Texas at Austin

Expanding the field of integrated administrative data: National perspectives and new work in Washington State

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Speakers

Jennie Romich
Director, West Coast Poverty Center & Professor of Social Work
University of Washington

Amy Hawn Nelson
Research Faculty & Director of Training and Technical Assistance at Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
University of Pennsylvania

Race and Childbearing in the US: Infertility as a Pressing Form of Reproductive Inequity

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Speaker

Jenna Nobles
Professor of Demography
University of California Berkeley

Anna Gassman-Pines, Professor of Public Policy and Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, presents, "How Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Low-Wage Working Families?"

Read more about Anna Gassman-Pines, Professor of Public Policy and Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, presents, "How Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Low-Wage Working Families?"

Seth Pollak, Bascom-Vaughan Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents, "Re-thinking Adversity: Early Life Stress from the Child's Perspective"

Read more about Seth Pollak, Bascom-Vaughan Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents, "Re-thinking Adversity: Early Life Stress from the Child's Perspective"

Discovering the processes through which early life experiences affect children’s development is critically important for developing prevention and interventions for youth exposed to adversity, and also for understanding the basic science of human development and learning. Nearly all research on early experience and socio-emotional development has been anchored on specific events that have (or have not) occurred in a child’s life. Yet, there is increasing evidence that children’s perceptions of their own experiences and the meaning they construe from what has happened to them can deepen our understanding of their behavioral, health, and learning outcomes. How can we better embrace this real, albeit messy, complexity of human development? This presentation aims to serve as a catalyst for thinking about these kinds of new future research directions.

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