Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy
September 14-15, 2009
University of Wisconsin–Madison
CPRC was pleased to co-sponsor a conference on Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy with the Institute for Research on Poverty at University of Wisconsin-Madison in September of 2009.The conference brought together scholars and policymakers to examine strategies for reducing barriers to marriage and father involvement, designing child support and other public policies to encourage the involvement of fathers, and coping with fathers who have multiple child support responsibilities. Participating CPRC faculty included Irwin Garfinkel and Ronald B. Mincy. For a full list of presentations, please see the agenda.
The National Children's Study and Birth Cohort Research at Columbia
May 22, 2009, 8:30a.m. - 2:00p.m.
Room 1512, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St.
The CPRC's Children, Youth, and Families signature research area group presented a mini-conference on The National Children's Study and Birth Cohort Research at Columbia. The goal of the conference was to bring together researchers working on birth cohort studies, and to highlight Columbia's prominent role in The National Children's Study, a new U.S. birth cohort study that will eventually enroll 100,000 children. To access the presentations, please click on the titles below.
Leo Trasande - National Children's Study Queens Vangard Study
Virginia Rauh - NCS Adjunct Studies
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn - The Fragile Families and Child Well‐being Study: A Multi‐site Birth Cohort 9‐year Study of Mothers, Fathers and Their Children
Stephanie Kasen - What We Have Learned About Trajectories from the Children in the Community Cohort
William P. Fifer - The Perinatal Alcohol Stillbirth and SIDS Cohort: Maternal/Fetal/Infant Phenotypes and Beyond
Ezra Susser - Birth Cohorts: Then and Now (slides available upon request to cprc@columbia.edu)
Debbie Lawlor - Collecting Data on Mothers in Birth Cohort Studies: Lessons from ALSPAC
Urbanism Brown Bag
May 8, 2009, 9:30a.m. - 10:45a.m.
Room 705, School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave. (@ 122nd)
At this meeting, led by Peter Messeri, members of the Urbanism Signature Research Area Group discussed next steps for the New York City Initiative, planning for a fall conference on NYC research and data needs, and an R25 on training in use of large data set.
Training Workshop: Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Data to Study Marriage and Family
April 29, 2009, 6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, Brule B, Level 5
The Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) sponsored a free 2-hour workshop on the Fragile Families dataset at the PAA’s 2009 Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan. The presentation, “Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Data to Study Marriage and Family,” provided an overview of the research design and key components of the data as well as insights into using the data for studying union status and household structure, union history, relationship quality, and fertility. Sixteen attendees from twelve universities attended.
HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Brown Bag
April 21, 2009, 1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m.
Room 923, Allan Rosenfield Building, 722 West 168th Street
At this CPRC-sponsored brown bag, Jennifer Hirsch presented an overview of the Social Science Training and Research (STAR) Partnership—an NICHD-funded social science research capacity-building project which represents a five-year collaboration between faculty at Mailman (primarily though not exclusively in SMS) and researchers at some of Vietnam’s leading research institutions. Theo Sandfort presented an overview of the data set from Vietnam’s recently completed first-ever population-based survey on sexuality (for which he provided some input on the instrument development). Drs. Khuat Thu Hong and Le Bach Duong, colleagues at the Institute for Social Development Studies in Vietnam who led the survey project, were in New York visiting SMS in October, and they were available to meet with faculty interested in collaborating with them on writing grants to do secondary analysis on this data set and to discuss other potential projects.
Research Methods Workshop on Causal Inference in Population and Education Research
February 27, 2009, 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.
Room C03, Columbia University School of Social Work
The Methodology Core held a research methods workshop on "Causal Inference in Population and Education Research," conducted by Stephen Morgan, Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University. Morgan is also the author, together with Christopher Winship, of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research). Twenty-nine attendees from across the University were in attendance. To prepare for the workshop, two discussion groups were held. Scroll down for the discussion reading lists.
Methodology Core Discussion Group on Causal Effects Estimation through Weighted Regression and Matching
February 12, 2009, 9:00a.m. - 11:00a.m.
Room 532a,
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
To prepare for Stephen Morgan's workshop on February 27th, a discussion grouop was held to discuss the following reading:
Morgan, S.L. and Todd, J.J. 2008. A Diagnostic routine for the detection of consequential heterogeneity of causal effects.Sociological Methodology 38(1), 231-281.
Methodology Core Discussion Group on Counterfactual Framework for Causal Inference
January 22, 2009, 9:00a.m. - 11:00a.m.
Room 1109, Columbia University School of Social Work
To prepare for Stephen Morgan's workshop on February 27th, a discussion grouop was held to discuss the following readings:
Greg Duncan. 2008. When to promote, and when to avoid, a population perspective. Demography, 45(4): 763-784.
Sharon Schwartz et al. What would have been is not what would be: Counterfactuals of the past and potential outcomes of the future. Forthcoming in Shrout (ed.). Causality and Psychopathology: Finding the Determinants of Disorders and Their Cures.
New York City Initiative: An Introductory Meeting
September 24, 2008, 6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.
Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2008
June 30 - July 2, 2008
Columbia University School of Social Work
Children, Youth, and Families: Early Influences on Later Outcomes
May 16, 2008, 9a.m. – 2 p.m.
Room 1512, International
Affairs Building,
420 W 118th St.
Immigration/Migration Roundtable
May 29, 2007, 9a.m. – 1 p.m.
Room 304, School of Social Work
A Workshop on Urban Research: The City in a Global World
May 18, 2007, 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Room 304, School of Social Work
Children, Youth, and Families: Prenatal Influences - Education Policy - Issues in Adolescence
May 11, 2007, 9a.m. – 2 p.m.
Room 1512, International
Affairs Building,
420 W 118th St.
HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health: Towards a Cross-Campus Agenda
April 13, 2007