IPR - Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University

Colloquia and Events
November 24, “Environmental Policy Options: Lessons from Europe” by Monica Prasad, Assistant Professor of Sociology
and IPR Faculty Fellow
December 1, “Did Disenfranchisement Laws Help Elect President Bush? New Evidence on the Turnout Rates and Candidate
Preferences of Florida’s Ex-Felons” by Traci Burch, Assistant Professor of Political Science and IPR Faculty Associate
Q-Center Colloquia Series of IPR’s Center for Improving Methods for Quantitative Policy Research
February 5, “Adaptive Centering with Random Effects: An Alternative to the Fixed Effects Model” by Stephen Raudenbush,
Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
February 12, “Inferential Challenges of Internet Surveys” by Mick Couper, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan
April 8, “Adaptive Partial Drug Approval” by Charles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor in Economics, Department
Chair, and IPR Faculty Fellow
May 6, “Issues in the Pooling of Regression-Discontinuity Estimates: General Considerations and a Concrete Example” by
Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice, Co-Director of the Q-Center, and IPR Faculty
Fellow; and Vivian Wong, Doctoral Student and IPR Graduate Research Assistant
June 3, “Generalization from Experiments” by Larry V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy,
Co-Director of the Q-Center, and IPR Faculty Fellow
Seminars on Performance Measurement
April 1, “Measuring Performance of a Foundation’s Grantmaking”
by Mary Cahillane, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, Spencer
Foundation
April 22, “What Does ‘Good Performance’ Mean at the Field Museum?”
by Elizabeth Babcock, Director of Teacher and Student Programs, The Field
Museum of Chicago
May 20, “Adaptive Partial Drug Approval” by Charles F. Manski, Board of
Trustees Professor in Economics, Department Chair, and IPR Faculty Fellow
Burton Weisbrod, who chairs IPR’s program on
Philanthropy and Nonprofits, talks with Mary
Cahillane of the Spencer Foundation at an IPR
Seminar on Performance Measurement.
May 27, “Measuring and Rewarding Performance in Higher Education:
What Presidents’ and Football Coaches’ Contracts Tell Us” by Burton
Weisbrod, John Evans Professor of Economics, IPR Faculty Fellow, and
Chair, IPR Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits; and Evelyn Asch,
IPR Project Coordinator
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