Highlights of 2011 - Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern ...

Colloquia AND Events
November 30, “Poor Taxpayers Subsidizing Wealthy Professional
Sports Franchises” by David Haddock, Professor of Law and
Economics, Northwestern University
Joint Economics/IPR Seminar Series
February 24, “Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions:
A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply” by
Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
March 3, “The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics”
by Benjamin Olken, Associate Professor of Economics, MIT
March 31, “Violence Beyond Reason: Prohibition of Alcohol and
the Decline of Lynching in the U.S. South” by Hoyt Bleakley,
Associate Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business,
University of Chicago
April 7, “Vote-Buying and Reciprocity” by Laura Schechter,
Assistant Professor of Economics, Michigan State University
April 28, “Two Studies of Class-Size Effects: Evidence from a
Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial” by Elizabeth Wilde,
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman
School of Public Health, Columbia University
May 12, “Information Asymmetry and Equilibrium Monitoring in
Education” by Maria Ferreyra, Associate Professor of Economics,
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
September 29, “The Impact of Immigration on the Educational
Attainment of Natives” by Jennifer Hunt, Professor of Economics,
Rutgers University
October 5, “War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and
the World War II G.I. Bill” by Marianne Page, Professor of
Economics, University of California, Davis
October 13, “School Choice, School Quality, and Postsecondary
Attainment” by David Deming, Assistant Professor of Education
and Economics, Harvard University
October 27, “The Diffusion of Microfinance” by Abhijit Banerjee,
Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics and
Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT
Joint IPR/Sociology Seminars
May 19, Social Inequality and Joint Difference Lecture: “Taxing
the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged” by
Katherine Newman, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School
of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University; and Rourke
O’Brien, Doctoral Student, Princeton University
May 26, “The Great Recession and the Future of Anti-poverty
Policy” by Sheldon Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished
University Professor of Public Policy, Research Professor at
the Population Studies Center, and Director of the National
Poverty Center, University of Michigan
IPR Policy Research Briefing
May 23, Chicago, “Effects of Early Environments on Behavior,
Achievement, and Health” by Lauren Wakschlag, Professor and
Vice Chair for Scientific and Faculty Development, Department
of Medical Social Sciences, and IPR Fellow; Jonathan Guryan,
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
and IPR Fellow; and Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of
Environmental Economics, MIT
IPR Distinguished Public Policy Lecture
May 2, “Government Statistics and Social Science Statistics:
What Is Quality?” by Robert Groves, Director, U.S. Census
Bureau
Conferences, Workshops, and Special
Events
February 9, “Research Opportunities at the Chicago RDC”
by Bhash Mazumder, Director, Chicago Census Research Data
(CRDC) Center, and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago; and Frank Limehouse, U.S. Census Bureau, and
Economist and CRDC Administrator
March 28, “IPR Forum: 21st Century Justice: Current Research
on Policing, Criminals, Prisons, and Guns” by Wesley G. Skogan,
Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow; John Hagan, John D.
MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law and IPR Associate;
and Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social
Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, University of
Chicago
May 5, “The Oil and Natural Gas Industry in a Changing,
Global-Influencing Environment” by Ken Cohen, Vice President
of Public and Government Affairs, ExxonMobil, co-sponsored
with the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern
(ISEN), Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Buffett
Center, and Corporate Relations
May 6, Chicago Area Political and Social Behavior (CAB)
Workshop, organized by James Druckman, Payson S. Wild
Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
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