CPI Events
2008
Child Policy Initiative Brown Bag Series
May 1 - Speaker: Mary Beth Walker
Associate Professor of Economics in Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, presented a working paper entitled "Measuring the Impact of Competition among Georgia Pre-Schools."
March 12 - Speaker: James P. Ziliak
Part of the Visiting Scholars Program at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Ziliak is a labor economist, the director of the UK Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR), and holds the Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics at Kentucky.
Feb. 20 - Speaker: Cynthia Searcy
Assistant Professor of Public Administration at GSU, presented her research on childhood obesity (specifically adolescents aged 10-18).
Jan. 30 - Speaker: Mary Ann Romski
Associate Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Director of Georgia State’s Center for Research into Atypical Development and Learning (CRADL).
2007
Child Policy Roundtable - Issues for 2008
Child Policy Initiative Brown Bag Series
Nov. 7 - Speaker: Chris Henrich
Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, presented on Head Start and parent involvement.
Oct. 24 - Speaker: Paul Ferraro
Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, presented "The Today and Tomorrow of Kids: Time Preferences and Student Performance.”
Oct. 10 - Speaker: James Marton
Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, presented on the financing of state children's health insurance program (SCHIP).
Sept. 27 - Speaker: Christine Roch
Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Public Policy, presented her paper “Representative Bureaucracy & Policy Tools: Ethnicity, Student Discipline, and Representation in Public Schools.”
April 12 - Speaker: Shif Gurmu
Associate Professor of Economics
March 28 - Speaker: Dana Rickman
Senior Research Associate in the Office of Domestic Programs
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