CPRC

Spring 2010

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

January 26 

Bruce Bradbury, Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Austrailia
"Estimating Expenditure Needs in Retirement"

February 2

Bob Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, Columbia Universtiy
"From Depression to Depression: Seventy-five years of Public Opinion Toward Welfare"
Paper
Data

February 9

Pamela Morris, Professor of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School og Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University and Chrishana Lloyd, Research Associate at MDRC
“The Foundations of Learning Project: Can Teacher Training in Classroom Management Make a Difference for Children's Experience in Preschool?”
Paper

February 16 

Amanda Geller, Associate Research Scientist, School of Social Work and School of Law, Columbia University
“Doubling Down on Pot: Marijuana, Race, and the New Disorder in New York City Street Policing"

February 23 

Nathan Hutto and Liana Fox, Doctoral Students in School of Social Work, Columbia University
"Impact of Obesity on Intergenerational Mobility”

March 2

Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University School of Social Work and Co-director, Columbia Population Research Center
“Wealth and Welfare States"

March 9

Elizabeth Ty Wilde, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University
"The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Different Skills Levels"
Paper

March 23

Ezra Suzzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University and New York State Pyschiatric Institute and Wim Veiling, Psychiatrist and Epidemiologist, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
"Migration and Schizophrenia"

April 6

Louisa Gilbert,Co-Director,Columbia University Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (GHRCCA)
"The Silk Road Study: Migration and HIV Risks among Market Vendors in Kazakhstan"

April 20

Julien Teitler, Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Social Indicatiors Survey Center
Topic TBD