Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2012
July 11-13, 2012
School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd St.
The Columbia Population Research Center hosted the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop at the Columbia University School of Social Work. Participants included young scholars from various social and biomedical science disciplines, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. The workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, especially the nine-year follow-up data, which will become publicly available in early 2012. The national study follows a birth cohort of (mostly) unmarried parents and their children, providing information about the capabilities, circumstances, and relationships of unwed parents, the wellbeing of their children, and the role of public policy in family formation and parent and child wellbeing.
Additional information about the Fragile Families study is available at here.
New Directions in Measuring Poverty
May 10, 2012, 8:30am - 1:00pm
School of Social Work, Room C06 (lower level), 1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd St.
This mini-conference featured presentations on the new supplemental poverty measure by David Johnson (U.S. Census Bureau), Tim Smeeding (Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin), and Mark Levitan (New York City Center for Economic Opportunity), and a panel discussion with Jason DeParle (New York Times), Heidi Hartmann (Institute for Women’s Policy Research) and Michael Laracy (Annie E. Casey Foundation).
Research to Policy Training Workshop
Tuesday, May 24, 2011,8:45a.m. – 4:30p.m.
School of Social Work, Room C06 (lower level), 1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd St.
The CPRC's Developmental Infrastructure Core organized a workshop for faculty, research scientists, post-docs, and doctoral students on Research to Policy Training. The day included an overview on "What is Translation?" by Ken Prewitt, Ph.D., School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. There was a session on "Building dialogues and co-constructing" with Peter Messeri, Ph.D. and Angela Aidala, Ph.D., Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University. Geoffrey Knox of Geoffrey Knox and Associates presented on "Working with the media." There was a session on "How do issues get on the public agenda?" by Vicki Lens, M.S.W., J.D., Ph.D., School of Social Work, Columbia University and Constance A. Nathanson, Ph.D., Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University. The workshop closed with two case studies by Virginia Rauh, ScD, M.S.W., Population and Family Health, Columbia University, and Andrew Rundle, Dr.P.H., Epidemiology, Columbia University.
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Examining Gene-Environment Interactions in the Social Sciences
Friday, May 20, 2011, 8:30a.m. – 2:00p.m.
Room 1512, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th St.
The CPRC's Children, Youth, and Families group, together with the The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Gene X Environment Working Group, organized a miniconference on "Examining Gene-Environment Interactions in the Social Sciences." The conference presented emerging work and research using several major datasets (Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing, Add Health, NHANES and WLS).
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Comparative Child and Family Policy: A Conference in Honor of Dr. Sheila B. Kamerman
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 9:00a.m. - 5:30p.m.
Presidential Level, Columbia Univeristy Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive @ 116th St.
The CPRC's Children, Youth, and Families signature research area group organized a conference to celebrate colleague Sheila B. Kamerman's immense contributions to the field of comparative child and family policy. The CPRC brought together scholars from around the world to provide a scintillating analysis of the current state of child and family policy as well as future directions. Speakers included John Lawrence Aber, Willem Adema, Asher Ben-Arieh, Jonathan Bradshaw, Solrun Engilbertsdottir (for Gáspár Fajth), Jeanne Fagnani, Irwin Garfinkel, Shirley Gatenio Gabel, Neil Gilbert, Janet Gornick, Brenda McGowan, Peter Moss, Niels Ploug, and Jane Waldfogel. Also participating in the program were Jonathan Cole, Geraldine Downey, Ester Fuchs, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Jennifer March-Joly, Kristin Moore, Jane Spinak, and Jeanette Takamura. This conference was made possible with support from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Anonymous, The Buffett Early Childhood Fund, Columbia University School of Social Work, First Focus, Foundation for Child Development, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, and the William T. Grant Foundation.
Effects of the Recession on Children and Families
Thursday, December 9, 2010, 9:00a.m.-1:00p.m.
Room C06 (lower level), Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd St.
The CPRC's Children, Youth, and Families signature research area group presented a workshop on"Effects of the Recession on Children and Families." The workshop included an overview of the Great Recession by Sheldon Danziger, and three papers by authors at Columbia, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Click on the talk titles below to access the slides/abstracts provided by the speakers.
Sheldon Danziger - “The Great Recession and the Future of Poverty”
Natasha Pilkauskas - “The Great Recession and Material Hardship”
Daniel Schneider - "How did the Great Recession Influence Union Formation and Stability? Evidence from the Fragile Families Study”
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn - “Economic Conditions and Genetic Propensities: The Affect of the Great Recession and Dopamine Receptor Gene DRD2 on Maternal Harsh Parenting”
Disparities in Child Health and Development
Thursday, May 20, 2010, 8:30a.m.-2:00p.m.
Room 1512, School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th St.
The CPRC's Children, Youth, and Families signature research area group presented a mini-conference on "Disparities in Child Health and Development." The conference included overviews on disparities research by Janet Currie and Bruce Link, a session on education disparities, and a session on health disparities. Click on the talk titles below to access the slides/abstracts provided by the speakers.
(Pictured: Janet Currie)
Bruce Link - “The Social Shaping of Population Health: Implications for Child and Adult Health Inequalities”
Janet Currie - “Linking Disparities in Health and Education”
Jane Waldfogel - “Disparities in School Readiness Across Countries”
Kimberly Noble - “Neuroscience and Disparities in Reading Development”
Randall Reback - “Schools’ Mental Health Services and Young Children’s Emotions, Behavior, and Learning"
Julien Teitler - “Maternal Aging and Disparities in Infant Health”
Joyce Pressley - “The Persistence of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fatal Injuries among U.S. Children”
Andrew Rundle - "The Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Transmission Across Generations"
Immigration/Migration Research at Columbia
Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:30a.m.-2:00p.m.
Room C06 (Concourse Level), School of Social Work,
1255 Amsterdam Avenue (@ 122nd)
The CPRC's Immigration/Migration signature research area group
presented a mini-conference on Immigration/Migration Research at Columbia. The goal of the conference was to bring
together scholars working on immigration/migration research. Two sessions focused on Immigration/Migration and Health and Immigrants and the Labor Market. The final session was a panel discussion on Immigration policy in the US.Agenda • Speaker Bios
Lisa Bates- "Immigration and Low Birthweight in the US: The Role of Time and Timing"
Yao Lu- "Health of Migrants and People Left Behind"
Yinon Cohen- "Selectivity Patterns of Israeli Immigrants in OECD Countries"
Neeraj Kaushal - "Earning Trajectories of High-Educated Immigrants: Does Place of Education Matter?"
David Reimers - Brief History of Immigration in the U.S. (no slides)
Francisco Rivera-Batiz- "Immigration Policy in the US: Where are We?, How did We Get Here?, Where do We Go?"
Rodolfo de la Garza - "A Proposal for Immigration Reform"
Children, Youth, and Families Meeting
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 1:00p.m.-2:00p.m.
Room 1109, School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave. (@ 122nd)
The Children, Youth, and Families SRAG’s winter meeting was held on Thursday, January 28, 2010, from 1:00-2:00pm, in the School of Social Work, Room 1109. The agenda included discussing current research projects and planning the annual spring conference, scheduled for Thursday, May 20.
HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Meeting
Tuesday, October 20, 2:00-3:30pm
Room 555, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, 722 West 168th Street
This meeting was an opportunity to learn about data sets available to do population-based research in Vietnam. Colleagues of Jennifer Hirsch, co-director of CPRC's Developmental Infrastructure Core and co-convener of the HIV/AIDS & Reproductive Health SRAG, were visiting from Hanoi and they met with CPRC investigators to walk them through the best of a dozen or so large data sets.The meeting took place under the general aegis of Sociomedical Sciences' Social Science Training and Research (STAR) Partnership (of which Jennifer Hirsch is PI)– 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. The overall objective of the STAR partnership is to create a national center of excellence in social science approaches to the study of HIV prevention, treatment, and care in Vietnam. A very densely populated country with one of the world’s highest abortion rates, as well as intense rural-urban migration and economic changes which have the country on track to leave behind ‘developing country’ status as early as 2020, Vietnam provides exciting contexts for population research—and the STAR partnership is committed to providing infrastructural support to help develop collaborations between Columbia faculty and our Vietnamese colleagues.
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.
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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.
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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.
Agenda
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.
Agenda
Immigration/Migration Roundtable
May 29, 2007, 9a.m. – 1 p.m.
Room 304, School of Social Work
Agenda
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
Agenda
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.
Agenda
HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health: Towards a Cross-Campus Agenda
April 13, 2007