Seminar Series

Fragile Families Working Group

Spring 2010



All seminars occur on Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:00 pm    
Room 1109, School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd Street

RSVP required to cprc@columbia.edu



February 11 

Irv Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University, and Co-director, Columbia Population Research Center
"Fragile Families and the Great Recession"

February 25  

Robert Wagmiller, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Buffalo
"How Representative Are the Fragile Families Study Families?: A Comparison of the ECLS-B Samples"

March 11 

Colter Mitchell, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University
"The Role of Mother's Genes and Environment in Postpartum Depression"

April 8 

Irv Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University, and Co-director, Columbia Population Research Center
"The Great Recession and Economic Hardship"

April 29

Audrey Beck, Research Associate, Princeton University
"Racial Gaps in School Readiness Using Fragile Families"

May 13

Dohoon Lee, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University
"The Reciprocal Relationship between Parenting and Child Development"