Seminar Series

Social Policy Seminars

Fall 2009

Printable Version

Columbia University School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 1109
Tuesdays 1-2pm

September 22  

Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University School of Social Work and co-director, Columbia Population Research Center
"The Effects of the Great Recession on Fragile Families"

September 29

Melissa Martinson, Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University School of Social Work
"Health Across the Life Span in the U.S. and England"

October 6

James Riccio, Director, Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area, MDRC
“Evaluating NYC's Experimental Conditional Cash Transfer program (Opportunity NYC--Family Rewards) for Low-Income Families”

October 13  

Naomi Eisenstadt, Director, the UK Social Exclusion Taskforce, Cabinet Office
“Ten Years of Early Years Policy, Practice, and Research"
Slides

October 20  

Howard Chernick, Professor of Economics, Hunter College
"Redistribution at the State and Local Level: Consequences for Economic Growth”
Paper

October 27

Judith Scott-Clayton, Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
“On Money and Motivation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Financial Incentives for College Achievement”
Paper
Appendix

November 10

Andrew White, Director, Center for New York City Affairs, The New School
Title TBA

November 17

Edward Wolff, Professor of Economics, New York University
"The Middle Class Squeeze"

November 24  

Ira Gang, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University
"Revealed Informal Activity"

December 1  

Yao Lu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
"Migration and Health in Developing Settings"

December 8  

Jane Waldfogel, Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of Social Work
“Britain's War on Poverty”

December 15

Bob Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Title TBA