Fall 2009
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