Past NPC Events - 2005
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Seminar: "Effects of Male Incarceration on AIDS Infection Rates Among African-Americans." Rucker Johnson, University of California-Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the Center For Social Epidemiology & Population Health. December 14, 2005
Seminar: "Families Across Households: Who Gets Counted and the Implications for Family Functioning." Rukmalie Jayakody, Pennsylvania State University.
Seminar: "An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'." Roland G. Fryer, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Labor Economics Seminar. Read the paper online.
Seminar: "Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?" Susan Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. October 12, 2005.
Seminar: "Promoting Work in Public Housing: The Effectiveness of Jobs Plus." James Riccio, MDRC. Offered in conjunction with FSPP 636, Program Evaluation. October 6, 2005.
Conference: "Colors of Poverty." Organized for the National Poverty Center by David Harris, Cornell University and Ann Lin, University of Michigan. September, 2005. Conference papers available here.
Conference: "Debating Social Security Reform." Keynote speaker: Edward Gramlich, Interim Provost, University of Michigan; Richard A. Musgrave Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Panelists: Henry Aaron, Senior Fellow and the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair at the Brookings Institution, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Academy of Social Insurance; Olivia Mitchell, Director of the Boettner Center for Pension and Retirement Research at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a member of President Bush’s Commission for Strengthening Social Security; and Robert Willis, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Health and Retirement Survey at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. The panel was chaired by Darren Lubotsky, Visiting Professor of Public Policy at UM, and a faculty member at the University of Illinois. Co-sponsored with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. September 29, 2005.
Conference: National Poverty Center Open House for University of Michigan Graduate Students. Rebecca Blank and Sheldon Danziger, NPC Co-Directors and Kristin Seefeldt, NPC Assistant Director. September 21, 2005.
Conference: "New Directions for Research on Social Policy and Organizational Practices" Organized by Kristin Seefeldt, Evelyn Brodkin (Univ. of Chicago), Zeke Hasenfeld (UCLA), Ann Lin (UM), and Marcia Meyers (Univ.of Washington). July 11-12, 2005. Conference papers available here.
Conference: "Mixed Methods Research on Economic Conditions, Public Policy, and Family and Child Well-Being." Organized for the National Poverty Center by Ariel Kalil and Hiro Yoshikawa. June 27-28, 2005. Conference papers available here.
Symposium: "The Healthy Marriage Initiative." Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Children and Family, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. June 23, 2005.
Symposium: "Studying the Causes of Persistent Racial Residential Segregation: Innovations and Old Favorites." Reynolds Farley (University of Michigan), Maria Krysan (University of Illinois at Chicago); Mick Couper (University of Michigan.) June 21, 2005.
Conference: "Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers." June 9-10, 2005.
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"The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values.” William Collins, Vanderbilt University and "The Long Run Economic Impact of the 1992 Los Angeles Riot." Justin McCrary, University of Michigan. April 22, 2005.
NPC/EU Conference: "Changing Social Policies for Low-Income Families and Less-Skilled Workers in the EU and the U.S." Jointly sponsored by the National Poverty Center, Gerald, R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan and the European Union Center, University of Michigan. April 7-8, 2005.
"European Union Social Policy in a Global Context." Citigroup Lecture Series. Keynote address for the conference, "Changing Social Policies for Low-Income Families and Less-Skilled Workers in the European Union and the U.S." Sir Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford. April 7, 2005. Details.
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Seminar: "Engaging the Interracial Family Tree: A Multidimensional Perspective on Racial Classification." March 24, 2005. David R. Harris, Cornell University
Seminar: "Implementing Welfare Reform: Lessons from the Field." March 21, 2005. Pamela Holcomb, The Urban Institute and John Martinez, MDRC.
Seminar: "Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage." Kathryn Edin, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Maria Kefalas, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Co-sponsored by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Video: 1:32:00 
Seminar: "Race, Poverty, and Educational Disparities." January 19, 2005. Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University and Carla O'Connor, University of Michigan, speakers.
