Here’s the spring 2005 schedule for the Family Demography and Public Policy Seminar at Columbia’s School of Social Work. Lots of interesting stuff, it looks like:

Jan. 25 Irv Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems and Lenna Nepomnyaschy,
Post-Doctoral Researcher. “The Relationship between Formal and Informal Child Support.”

**Feb. 3 Asher Ben-Arieh, Lecturer, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
THURSDAY Visiting Professor, Institute of Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson University. “Where are the
Children? Children’s Role in Measuring and Monitoring their Well-Being.”

Feb. 8 Clive Belfield, Assistant Professor of Economics, Queen’s College, CUNY. “The High/Scope Perry
Preschool Program: Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data from the Age-40 Follow-Up”

Feb. 15 Julien Teitler, Assistant Professor, CUSSW. Topic: TBA

Feb. 22 Ronald Mincy. Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Jennifer Hill.
Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs; and Marilyn Sinkewicz. Doctoral Student,
CUSSW. “Productivity and Marital Status: Extending the Civilizing Hypothesis with Multiple Imputation.”

March 1 Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education,
Teachers College. With co-authors Holly Foster, Yange Xue, and Tama Leventhal, “Links between
Neighborhood Processes and Adolescent Behaviors.”

March 8 Tom DiPrete, Professor of Sociology, CU. “Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children
Generate Cross-National Differences in Fertility Behavior?”

March 15 SPRING BREAK – NO SEMINAR

March 22 Robert Crosnoe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin. “Standing Out, Fitting In:
Schools as Contexts of Human Development.”

March 29 Derrick Hamilton, Assistant Professor, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New
School University. “From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages among African-Americans.”

April 5 Jeffrey Fagan, Professor of Law and Public Health, CU. “Incarceration Effects on Voter Participation in
New York City, 1985-96,” with co-author, Valerie West, Research Scientist, School of Law, CU.

April 12 Cordelia Reimers, Professor of Economics, Hunter College, CUNY. “The Impact of 9/11 on Low-Skilled,
Minority, and Immigrant Workers in New York City.”

April 19 Brendan O’Flaherty, Associate Professor of Economics, CU. “New York City Homeless Shelter
Dynamics.”

April 26 Mattew Neidell, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health.
Topic: TBA

May 3 Henry Levin, William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, “The
Cost to Society of Inadequate Education: A Benefit-Cost Approach.”

May 10 Hiro Yoshikawa, Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Policy, New York University. “Five-Year
Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program on Entry into Marriage among Never-Married Mothers: Exploring
Economic and Psychological Mediators.”

May 17 William Rodgers, Professor of Economics, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy,
Rutgers University. Topic: TBA